A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿabd Al-Hādī

Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and former Professor of Middle Eastern History at SOAS (London). His research focuses on Egypt and Syria in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (c. 1200-1500). He is the author of Medieval Damascus (EUP, 2016), The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands (EUP, 2012) and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (Routledge, 2006).