Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library. The Ashrafīya Library Catalogue
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 19565
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474408776
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph of over 500 pages is the first study of any ‘medieval’ Middle Eastern library to reconstruct its holdings, its intellectual profile and its role in social and cultural terms. It is centred around a large corpus of manuscripts in various modern Middle Eastern libraries that were not digitised during the research and thus required consulting them in situ. The book also developed a new methodology for undertaking such work of library archaeology in the Arabic speaking context. Its significance meant that it was awarded book prizes in the US and Europe.
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- Non-English
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