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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Boris Liebrenz , Christoph RauchPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 19 Weight: 0.853kg ISBN: 9789004390195ISBN 10: 9004390197 Pages: 438 Publication Date: 21 March 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Note on Transliteration and Dates 1 Introduction Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch Part 1 Berlin 2 Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als Forscher Holger Preissler 3 Semitic Studies at the University of Berlin during Wetzstein's Lifetime Ludmila Hanisch 4 Growing Collections and Rising Expectations The Endeavour to Catalogue Manuscripts in Arabic Script at the Royal Library in Berlin Christoph Rauch Part 2 The Wetzstein Collections 5 The Wetzstein Collection at Tubingen University Library Its History, Content, and Reception in Oriental Studies Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf 6 The Quranic Collections Acquired by Wetzstein Francois Deroche 7 Johann Gottfried Wetzstein's Manuscripts Containing Arabic Popular Stories Jan Just Witkam 8 The Consul and the King Wetzstein and Alexander Faustina Doufikar-Aerts 9 Wetzstein in Wonderland Arabian Epic Manuscripts in the Wetzstein Collections Claudia Ott 10 Arabic Manuscripts and Books from the Bequest of Wetzstein Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch Part 3 Collecting Oriental Manuscripts 11 Collecting Islamic Manuscripts at the Munich Court Library in the Nineteenth Century An Acquisition History Helga Rebhan 12 Manuscript Acquisitions and their Later Movements A Further Note about the Case of the Lewis Quranic Manuscript Alba Fedeli 13 Manuscript Ownership and Readership at the American University of Beirut at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Kaoukab Chebaro and Samar El Mikati El Kaissi Part 4 Damascus 14 Looking at Man in the State of Nature Johann Gottfried Wetzstein on the Bedouin of the Syrian Steppe Astrid Meier 15 From Leipzig to Damascus Wetzstein as a Broker of Arabic Prints in Syria Boris Liebrenz 16 Erganzungen zu den hinterlassenen Papieren Johann Gottfried Wetzsteins Ingeborg Huhn 17 Living in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Damascus Insights into the Urban Residences of Foreigners and Locals Anke Scharrahs 18 Arabist and Consul in Damascus Sir Richard Burton and the Problematic Nature of His Translation of The Thousand and One Nights Robert Irwin IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBoris Liebrenz is a researcher at the Saxon Academy of Science and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. His main interest is the history of manuscripts, libraries, and readers, also the topic of his Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus (Brill 2016; awarded the Annemarie-Schimmel- Forschungspreis 2017). Christoph Rauch is head of the Oriental Department at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. He co-organized several conferences and exhibitions on manuscript collections and the history of Oriental studies. He is co-editor of The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition (Brill 2015) and The Diez Albums: Contexts and Contents (Brill 2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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