Said Aljoumani Author

Said Aljoumani is Research Associate at Universit t Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures) and holds a PhD in Library Studies from Cairo University. He is the author of numerous journal articles as well as books in Arabic such as The Oeuvre of Ibn Abd al-Hadi and his Contribution to Preserving Intellectual Heritage (Brill, 2021), The Library of a Madrasa in Aleppo at the End of the Ottoman Era (German Orient Institute Beirut, 2020; awarded the 2021 Book Price of the Middle East Librarians Association) and Syrian Libraries in the Zangid and Ayyubid Era (Damascus: Dar Nur Hawran, 2014).Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Universit t Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures) and previously held professorships of Middle Eastern History at SOAS (University of London) and Freie Universit t Berlin. He is amongst others author of award-winning books such as A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture The Library of Ibn ?Abd al-H?d? (EUP, 2020), Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library (EUP, 2016), The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (EUP, 2012) and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (Routledge, 2006).