Collecting Books: Where is its place in scholarly biographies?

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14 juin 2020

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Damascus Anecdotes

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Dictionaries and encyclopedias Arabic manuscripts Life--Philosophy Collection and preservation Collecting Collectibles--Collectors and collecting Biographies Memoirs Life histories History--Biography Published material

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Torsten Wollina, « Collecting Books: Where is its place in scholarly biographies? », Damascus Anecdotes, ID : 10.58079/ur74

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One thing that has frustrated me for a while now is how most collectors of Arabic manuscripts are portrayed in biographical entries. To be more succinct, while the collections are usually mentioned, this often happens as an afterthought. According to such biographical entries, everything else a collector did in their life was more important / interesting than their collection. This is a common feature shared by articles on Wikipedia, in encyclopedias, and other scholarly publications (with t...

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