The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār : Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine /
This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of the library's holdings. The chapters in the first volume situate the libra...
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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
سلاسل:
Islamic History and Civilization ;
219.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: Z997.A26
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: The City, the Endowment and the Manuscripts
- Said Aljoumani, Guy Burak and Konrad Hirschler
- Part1 The History of al-Jazzār, His Library and the Inventory
- 1 Al-Jazzār's Library and Its Ottoman Context
- Berat Açıl, Nimet İpek and Guy Burak
- 2 The Inventory: Documentary and Bibliographical Practices in al-Jazzār's Library
- Said Aljoumani
- 3 From Whom and for Whom? The Audience and Provenance of al-Jazzār's Manuscripts
- Boris Liebrenz
- 4 Historical Representations of al-Jazzār: 'Butcher' or Patron of the Poor?
- Feras Krimsti
- 5 Uncovering al-Jazzār's Wealth: Confiscation and Power Struggle
- Yasin Arslantaş
- 6 The Library of Abū Nabbūt in Early Nineteenth-century Jaffa
- Benedikt Reier
- 7 A (Mostly) Local Story: The Translocations of al-Jazzār's Books in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Konrad Hirschler
- Part2 The Materiality of al-Jazzār's Manuscripts
- 8 Notes on Materials: How Brief Descriptions Indicate Substantial Losses
- Karin Scheper
- 9 Calligraphic Descriptions
- Nimet İpek and Guy Burak
- 10 The Endowment Seals
- Boris Liebrenz
- 11 By the Keepers' Hands: Comparing the Inks of Endowment Statements, Mottos and Seals
- Claudia Colini and Kyle Ann Huskin
- Part3 The Intellectual Profile of al-Jazzār's Library: The Inventory's Sections
- 12 The Qurʾan Section ( maṣāḥif )
- Walid A. Saleh
- 13 A Foreshadowing: The Qurʾan Commentary Section ( tafsīr )
- WalidA. Saleh
- 14 The Recitation Section ( qirāʾāt )
- ShadyH. Nasser
- 15 The ḥadīth Section
- Garrett Davidson
- 16 The Section on Islamic Law ( fiqh )
- Ahmed ElShamsy
- 17 Books on Islamic Theology ( tawḥīd ) and Sufism ( taṣawwuf ): Rational Verification and Experiential Learning in Ottoman Palestine
- Hadel Jarada
- 18 Textbooks of Grammar, Morphology and Lexicography: Cosmopolitan Arabic Philology in Early Nineteenth-century Acre
- Christopher Bahl
- 19 Manuals for Manners: Books on adab
- Berat Açıl
- 20 Logic in the Jazzār Collection (manṭiq )
- AsadQ. Ahmed
- 21 The Poetry Section ( al-dawāwīn wa-al-qaṣāʾid ): Pedagogy and Devotional Piety
- Khalil Sawan
- 22 The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section ( tārīkh )
- Dana Sajdi
- 23 Amassing Medicine ( ṭibb ): Selections from an Ottoman Governor's Medical Collection
- Deborah Schlein
- 24 The Occult Sciences
- Liana Saif
- 25 A Language-oriented Approach: The Section on Persian and Turkish Books
- Berat Açıl
- Edition of the Inventory
- Said Aljoumani
- Facsimile of the Inventory
- Index of the Inventory's Book Titles
- List of Identified al-Jazzār Manuscripts and Their Current Location.