Join us for the next installment of Readings in the Khalidiyya, a series about The Khalidi Library’s manuscript collection, accessibility through digitization and new scholarly inquiries.

Konrad Hirschler, a leading scholar on regional libraries such as the Khalidiyya will give his talk, “Libraries in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham: The Jerusalem Khalidiyya Library in Context" on 16 February 2021 at 1pm NY/ 8pm Jerusalem

Ahmed El Shamsy, author of Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (Princeton, 2020), will give commentary.

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Konrad Hirschler is Professor and Director, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies

Ahmed El Shamsy is Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at University of Chicago

For information about The Khalidi Library, visit its website.

Did you miss the first event in our series last fall? Watch the recording here.