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The Rise of the Arabic Book / Beatrice Gruendler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674987814
  • 9780674250284
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 002.0917/67 23
LOC classification:
  • Z8.I79 .G784 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. SCHOLARS -- 2. POETS -- 3. STATIONERS -- 4. BOOK OWNERS AND READERS -- CONCLUSION -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Contents in Detail, Figures, and Lists -- Index of Names and Works -- Index of Subjects and Terms
Summary: The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access.How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century.The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674250284

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. SCHOLARS -- 2. POETS -- 3. STATIONERS -- 4. BOOK OWNERS AND READERS -- CONCLUSION -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Contents in Detail, Figures, and Lists -- Index of Names and Works -- Index of Subjects and Terms

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The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access.How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century.The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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