TY - SER
AU - Said Aljoumani
AU - Guy Barak
AU - Konrad Hirschler
BT - Islamic history and civilization
CY - Leiden, The Netherlands
LA - English
N1 - <p>2 volumes. &nbsp;The first volumes contains contributions exploring various aspects of the collection and it's broader context. &nbsp; The second volume provides a facsimile of the inventory, a critical edition and index of the collection of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century.</p><p>Contents:</p><ul><li>List of Figures and Tables</li><li>Contributors</li><li>Introduction: The City, the Endowment and the Manuscripts / Said Aljoumani, Guy Burak and Konrad Hirschler&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 1 The History of al-Jazzār, His Library and the Inventory&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Al-Jazzār's Library and Its Ottoman Context / Berat Açıl, Nimet İpek and Guy Burak</li><li>The Inventory: Documentary and Bibliographical Practices in al-Jazzār's Library / Said Aljoumani</li><li>From Whom and for Whom? The Audience and Provenance of al-Jazzār's Manuscripts / Boris Liebrenz</li><li>Historical Representations of al-Jazzār: 'Butcher' or Patron of the Poor? / Feras Krimsti</li><li>Uncovering al-Jazzār's Wealth: Confiscation and Power Struggle &nbsp;/ Yasin Arslantaş</li><li>The Library of Abū Nabbūt in Early Nineteenth-century Jaffa &nbsp;/ Benedikt Reier</li><li>A (Mostly) Local Story: The Translocations of al-Jazzār's Books in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries &nbsp;/ Konrad Hirschler&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 2 The Materiality of al-Jazzār's Manuscripts&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Notes on Materials: How Brief Descriptions Indicate Substantial Losses / Karin Scheper</li><li>Calligraphic Descriptions / Nimet İpek and Guy Burak</li><li>The Endowment Seals / Boris Liebrenz</li><li>By the Keepers' Hands: Comparing the Inks of Endowment Statements, Mottos and Seals / Claudia Colini and Kyle Ann Huskin</li></ul><p>Part 3 The Intellectual Profile of al-Jazzār's Library: The Inventory's Sections&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The Qurʾan Section ( maṣāḥif ) / Walid A. Saleh</li><li>A Foreshadowing: The Qurʾan Commentary Section ( tafsīr ) / WalidA. Saleh</li><li>The Recitation Section ( qirāʾāt ) / Shady H. Nasser</li><li>The ḥadīth Section / Garrett Davidson</li><li>The Section on Islamic Law ( fiqh ) / Ahmed El Shamsy</li><li>Books on Islamic Theology ( tawḥīd ) and Sufism ( taṣawwuf ): Rational Verification and Experiential Learning in Ottoman Palestine / Hadel Jarada</li><li>Textbooks of Grammar, Morphology and Lexicography: Cosmopolitan Arabic Philology in Early Nineteenth-century Acre / Christopher Bahl</li><li>Manuals for Manners: Books on adab / Berat Açıl</li><li>Logic in the Jazzār Collection (manṭiq ) / Asad Q. Ahmed</li><li>The Poetry Section ( al-dawāwīn wa-al-qaṣāʾid ): Pedagogy and Devotional Piety / Khalil Sawan</li><li>The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section ( tārīkh ) / Dana Sajdi</li><li>Amassing Medicine ( ṭibb ): Selections from an Ottoman Governor's Medical Collection / Deborah Schlein</li><li>The Occult Sciences / Liana Saif</li><li>A Language-oriented Approach: The Section on Persian and Turkish Books / Berat Açıl</li></ul><style>ul > li {margin-bottom:5px;}</style><ul><li>Edition of the Inventory /Said Aljoumani</li><li>Facsimile of the Inventory</li><li>Index of the Inventory's Book Titles</li><li>List of Identified al-Jazzār Manuscripts and Their Current Location&nbsp;</li></ul>
PB - Brill
PP - Leiden, The Netherlands
PY - 2025
SN - 9789004720527
EP - 642 pp.
T2 - Islamic history and civilization
TI - The Library of Aḥmad Pasha Al-Jazzār: Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine
ER -