Download or read book A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture written by Konrad Hirschler and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus.