The rise of the Arabic book /
"During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2020.
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