Bibliophilia in Ottoman Aleppo: Muḥammad al-Taqawī and his Medical Library

Recent research has shown that book collecting by private individuals and institutions was a widespread phenomenon in Bilād al-Shām. At least from the Ayyubid period onwards, countless volumes were produced, changed hands in the book market, and lay around in libraries. To this day, Damascus occupie...

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Main Author: Reier, Benedikt (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2021
In: Der Islam
Year: 2021, Volume: 98, Issue: 2, Pages: 473-515
Further subjects:B Medical literature
B Library history
B Ottoman Aleppo
B book culture
B Orientalists’ quest for books
B Seventeenth Century
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