{"product_id":"monument-to-medieval-syrian-book-culture","title":"Monument To Medieval Syrian Book Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. This book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn ?Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus. The book suggests that this library was part of the owner’s symbolic strategy to monumentalise a vanishing world of scholarship bound to his life, family, quarter and home city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317475385726,"sku":"NW9781474451574","price":34.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781474451574.jpg?v=1778251894","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/monument-to-medieval-syrian-book-culture","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}