The Library of Aḥmad Pasha Al-Jazzār Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine

Said Aljoumani, Ph.D.(2010), Cairo University, is Research Associate at Universität Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures) and has numerous publications on the history of libraries and book culture including The Library of a Madrasa in Aleppo at the End of the Ottoman Era(2020).

Guy Burak, Ph.D.(2012), is the Librarian for Middle East, Islamic, Jewish and African Studies at New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. He has published several articles on Islamic legal and intellectual history in the post-Mongol period and is the author of The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire(Cambridge, 2015).

Konrad Hirschler, Ph.D.(2003), SOAS, is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Universität Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures). He has published extensively on historiography, history of libraries and archives and book history from the Ayyubid period through the twentieth century.