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In this book, small texts tell the big history of Arabic literatures. A pioneering analysis of manuscript notes follows the people who made and consumed the physical manifestations of this literary tradition into a detailed panorama of millennial transmission over three continents.
At the centre of this endeavour is an analysis of the life, career, and collecting of Abū Bakr b. Rustam al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723). As the head of the Ottoman Empire’s administration, he amassed a book collection of unsurpassed textual breadth, historical depth, and refinement. Efforts like his safeguarded this heritage and shaped how we encounter it today. This book highlights the crucial role the Ottoman capital Constantinople played in this process.
At the centre of this endeavour is an analysis of the life, career, and collecting of Abū Bakr b. Rustam al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723). As the head of the Ottoman Empire’s administration, he amassed a book collection of unsurpassed textual breadth, historical depth, and refinement. Efforts like his safeguarded this heritage and shaped how we encounter it today. This book highlights the crucial role the Ottoman capital Constantinople played in this process.
Price: $183.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
17 December 2026
ISBN: 9789004774797
Format: Hardcover
Boris Liebrenz, Ph.D. (2013) is a senior researcher in the Bibliotheca Arabica project at the Saxon Academy for Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. He has an abiding interest in the world of Islamic manuscripts and investigates a wide range of documentary sources to explore the social and cultural history of the Middle East. His monographs include Die Rifāʿīya aus Damaskus (Brill, 2016) and Arab Traders in Their Own Words. Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean around 1800 (Brill, 2022).