If you missed the second installment of Readings in the Khalidiyya, you can watch the recording now on the Center’s YouTube channel.
Konrad Hirschler, a leading scholar on regional libraries such as the Khalidiyya gave 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), gave commentary, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Readings in the Khalidiyya is a series about The Khalidi Library’s manuscript collection, accessibility through digitization and new scholarly inquiries.