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Medieval Syrian Book Culture Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture Series Editor: Carole Hillenbrand A MONUMENT TO MEDIEVAL TO MEDIEVAL A MONUMENT KONRAD HIRSCHLER SYRIAN BOOK CULTURE xxxxxx xxxxxx A MONUMENT TO Key Features • xxxxxxxx • xxxxxxx MEDIEVAL KONRAD HIRSCHLER is xxxxx SYRIAN Ashrafīya BOOK CULTURE -- THE LIBRARY OF IBN ‘ABD AL-HADI HIRSCHLER KONRAD KONRAD ISBN 978-1-4744-5156-7 edinburghuniversitypress.com Cover image: Scholars in a library from al-Ḥarīrī, Maqāmāt, 7th/13th century, MS Paris BNF arabe 3929, fol. 2b. © Bibliothèque nationale de France Cover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com EDINBURGH STUDIES IN CLASSICAL ISLAMIC HISTORY AND CULTURE A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture Series Editor: Carole Hillenbrand A particular feature of medieval Islamic civilisation was its wide horizons. The Muslims fell heir not only to the Graeco-Roman world of the Mediterranean, but also to that of the ancient Near East, to the empires of Assyria, Babylon and the Persians; and beyond that, they were in frequent contact with India and China to the east and with black Africa to the south. This intellectual openness can be sensed in many interrelated fields of Muslim thought, and it impacted powerfully on trade and on the networks that made it possible. Books in this series reflect this openness and cover a wide range of topics, periods and geographical areas. Titles in the series include: Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean Medicine Zohar Amar and Efraim Lev The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261–1517: Out of the Shadows Mustafa Banister The Medieval Western Maghrib: Cities, Patronage and Power Amira K. Bennison Keeping the Peace in Premodern Islam: Diplomacy under the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250–1517 Malika Dekkiche Queens, Concubines and Eunuchs in Medieval Islam Taef El-Azhari The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains Hannah-Lena Hagemann Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library – The Ashrafīya Library Catalogue Konrad Hirschler A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Konrad Hirschler The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt: State and Society, 1173–1325 Nathan Hofer Defining Anthropomorphism: The Challenge of Islamic Traditionalism Livnat Holtzman Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh Stefan Kamola Lyrics of Life: Sa‘di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self Fatemeh Keshavarz Art, Allegory and The Rise of Shiism In Iran, 1487–1565 Chad Kia A History of the True Balsam of Matarea Marcus Milwright Ruling from a Red Canopy: Political Authority in the Medieval Islamic World, From Anatolia to South Asia Colin P. Mitchell Islam, Christianity and the Realms of the Miraculous: A Comparative Exploration Ian Richard Netton Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers Elizabeth Urban edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/escihc A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture The Library of Ibn Abd al-Haˉdıˉ Konrad Hirschler Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com We are committed to making research available to a wide audience and are pleased to be publishing an Open Access ebook edition of this volume. © Konrad Hirschler 2020, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives licence Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12 (2f ) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 11/15 Adobe Garamond by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 5156 7 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 5159 8 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 5158 1 (epub) The right of Konrad Hirschler to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). Contents List of Illustrations vi Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Setting the Scene: The World of a Late Medieval Middling Scholar 23 2 Monumentalising the Past 64 3 Binding Matters – From Stand-alone Booklet to Monumental Composite Manuscript 115 4 Conclusion: The After-life of the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Collection 155 5 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification 171 Abbreviations 196 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist 198 6 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Edition 512 Bibliography 555 General Index 575 Index of Titles 582 Index of Authors 596 Index of Thematic Categories 607 Index of Identified Manuscripts of the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Corpus 611 Illustrations Tables I.1 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist in numbers 19 1.1 Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s children 31 2.1 Thematic categories in the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī collection 75 Maps 1.1 Damascus and suburbs at the beginning of the 10th/16th century 24 1.2 TheÍāli ªīya Quarter at the end of the Mamluk period 29 2.1 Book-related markets in in Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s lifetime 71 2.2 Plan of the ʿUmarīya Madrasa 108 4.1 Trajectories of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī manuscripts 162 Figures 3.1 Booklet with two bi-folia 124 3.2 Booklet after users added one bi-folium 124 Plate Section I: Plates for Chapters 1–4 Situated between pages 170 and 171 I.1 Entry for composite manuscript in Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s fihrist I.2 Land sale contract I.3 Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s receipt for annual rent I.4 ʿInda-account in hand of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī I.5 Example of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s mise-en-page illustrations | vii I.6 Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī running out of space in his auto-bibliography Tasmiya li-kutubī I.7 Book-lending list of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī I.8 Transmission notes in hand of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī I.9 Transmission note, written when Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī was unwell I.10 Primary title page of ªadīth booklet I.11 Secondary title page of ªadīth booklet I.12 Modern protective wrapper of ªadīth booklet I.13 Recto and verso of same folio filled with transmission notes I.14 Booklet with endowment note by Muªammad Ibn Hāmil al-Óarrānī I.15 Money ledger belonging to Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī reused to make a pasteboard I.16 Protective parchment wrapper of a ªadīth booklet I.17 Do-it-yourself stitching by Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī household I.18 Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s transmission note right on the secondary title page I.19 Leftover binding material on spine of a ªadīth booklet Plate Section II: The Ibnʿ Abd al-Hādī fihrist Situated between pages 554 and 555 II.1 title page II.15 entries 215–221 II.2 entries 1–24 II.16 entries 222–228 II.3 entries 25–51 II.17 entries 229–233 II.4 entries 52–76 II.18 entries 234–245 II.5 entries 77–101 II.19 entries 246–260 II.6 entries 102–123 II.20 entries 261–287 II.7 entries 124–141 II.21 entries 288–314 II.8 entries 142–160 II.22 entries 315–336 II.9 entries 161–169 II.23 entries 337–342 II.10 entries 170–180 II.24 entries 343–355 II.11 entries 181–190 II.25 entries 356–364 II.12 entries 191–201 II.26 entries 365–379 II.13 entries 202–208 II.27 entries 380–393 II.14 entries 209–214 II.28 entries 394–399 viii | a monument to medieval syrian book culture II.29 entries 400–404j II.45 entries 500–505d II.30 entries 404k–411 II.46 entries 505d–511f II.31 entries 412–420 II.47 entries 511f–515 II.32 entries 421–425 II.48 entries 516–523 II.33 entries 426–432d II.49 entries 524–530k II.34 entries 432d–437e II.50 entries 530k–535d II.35 entries 437f–442 II.51 entries 535d–539 II.36 entries 443–446 II.52 entries 540–543 II.37 entries 447–457o II.53 entries 544–550d II.38 entries 457p–462 II.54 entries 550d–553 II.39 entries 463–468g II.55 entries 554–563n II.40 entries 468h–472h II.56 entries 563o–567 II.41 entries 472h–480 II.57 entries 568–573 II.42 entries 481–485 II.58 entries 574–578 II.43 entries 486–490 II.59 entry 579 II.44 entries 491–499 Acknowledgements s always, there are more people to thank than there is room for on A these pages, but a few names should be singled out. Karima Benaicha (Al-Furqan Foundation, London), Abdul Aati al-Sharqawi (ILM, Cairo) and Philipp Roe (Chester Beatty Library) generously helped with gaining access to manuscript reproductions. Said Aljoumani has been a wonderful com- panion and was always there to discuss manuscript notes. Iman Zayat and Stephanie Luescher helped to bring the manuscript and illustrations into shape. Suzanne Ruggi once again copy-edited the book manuscript. Benedikt Reier, Boris Liebrenz and Garrett Davidson sent those emails with clues that led me to identify yet another manuscript. Rania Abdellatif got hold of the titles published in Syria. Tamer el-Leithy invited me to the History Seminar at Johns Hopkins University, a uniquely helpful meeting for discussing what I then believed would be a chapter for this book. Reading and discussing the work of PhD students, while writing this book especially Christopher Bahl, Mohamad El-Merheb and Daisy Livingston, has been a constant inspiration.
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