Book ID: CBB436918062

The Rise of the Arabic Book (2020)

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Gruendler, Beatrice (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 272
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Luana Giurgevich
Oltrogge, Doris
Andel, Tinde van
Violet Moller
Ryholt, Kim
Khayat, Nicole
Concepts
Books
Libraries and archives
Collectors and collecting
Bookmaking
Manuscripts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Time Periods
Medieval
Early modern
18th century
15th century
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Levant and Near East
North Africa
Europe
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Institutions
Hungarian Academy of Science [Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (MTA)]
University of Brescia
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