Orta Çağ İslam Dünyasında Kitap ve Kütüphane

Back Cover Article (From the Promotional Bulletin)

Known for his work in the field of culture and literary history, Prof. Dr. İsmail E. Erünsal allows us to travel to the history of the "book" in the medieval Islamic world with this work he wrote, titled Book and Library in the Medieval Islamic World. In this work, Erünsal not only compiles the Islamic manuscript literature in Western languages and Arabic sources, but also examines 1000 manuscripts, opening the doors of a dark world for us.

This work, which will enable us to get to know the world of manuscripts, which constitute one of the most important circles of Islamic culture, in every aspect, explains the material conditions such as paper, reed and ink necessary for the creation of the book, as well as the basic steps in the copyright process of the book, with striking anecdotes taken from the sources of the period.

The book also enables us to learn the intricacies of critical text publication along with technical terms such as spelling, icazet, münavele, vicâde, mükâtebe, as well as the processes of taking the final forms of the works taught in the classes in madrasahs or in the circles in mosques, such as mukabele, sema', recitation. It makes visible the mysterious figures of this world, such as the teacher-student, the author-mustemlî, the verrâk-copyist, who are the executors of the book production processes. It offers the keys to how to travel in an unknown world regarding books through the foundation, appropriation, waiver and copying records on the books. It reminds us of the centers of Islamic geography such as Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad, Bukhara, Samarkand, Kufa, Bursa and Mecca, which host manuscripts thanks to their libraries, madrasahs and book bazaars, as they are the centers of science...

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 15 x 24

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