On the basis of a newly discovered manuscript this book offers the most comprehensive bibliography of the enormous output of the fifteenth-century scholar Ibn Ê¿Abd al-HÄdÄ« â enlarging our view of his scholarly contribution and correcting numerous mistakes in this regard. This book is thus essential reading for all those interested in the writerly world of Damascus and the scholarly world of the late fifteenth century, especially with regard to the ḤanbalÄ« tradition and ḥadÄ«th scholarship. In particular, linking the titles of his books with the extant manuscripts in libraries around the world opens new perspectives to these scholarly worlds. At the same time this book offers a new framework to studying social history with reference to documents and the material culture of the book.
Said Aljoumani, Ph.D. (2010), Cairo University, is Researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2017. His main areas of expertise are the history of libraries and manuscript studies. Among his publications is A madrasa Library in Aleppo at the Dawn of the Ottoman Era (Orient Institute Beirut, 2020).
Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research concentrates on Egypt and Syria in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods with a focus on social and cultural history. Among his books is Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
All interested in Islamic Studies and especially history of the book and history of libraries. The focus on the Ḥanbalī heritage will appeal in particular to those interested in Ḥanbalism.