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This articles traces the history of libraries in the Muslim World from spanning over a 1000 years. It also looks at the books trade, book publishing, authors, Kings and Queens who sponsored libraries or who were bibliophiles in their own right. Book trade in the golden period of Islam (850-1250) was a profitable business. Muslim scholars, scientists loved writing and collecting books. Manuscripts in various European and Eastern libraries are a testimony to this.
Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves. Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of the Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516) [Mamluk Studies, Vol. 26] (Bonn University Press)
Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves. Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of the Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516)2021 •
Starting from 135 manuscripts that were once part of the library of the late Mamluk sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516), this book challenges the dominant narrative of a “post-court era”, in which courts were increasingly marginalized in the field of adab. Rather than being the literary barren field that much of the Arabic and Arabic-centred sources, produced extra muros, would have us believe, it re-cognizes Qāniṣawh’s court as a rich and vibrant literary site and a cosmopolitan hub in a burgeoning Turkic literary ecumene. It also re-centres the ruler himself within this court. No longer the passive object of panegyric or the source of patronage alone, Qāniṣawh has an authorial voice in his own right, one that is idiosyncratic yet in conversation with other voices. As such, while this book is first and foremost a book about books, it is one that consciously aspires to be more than that: a book about a library, and, ultimately, a book about the man behind the library, Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī. Open access since April 2024! Also downloadable through https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/11485
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