TY  - JOUR
T1  - Said Aljoumani, Guy Burak, and Konrad Hirschler, eds. The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār: Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine, Leiden: Brill, 2025. xiii+480.
AU  - Uğurlu, İsa
PY  - 2025
DA  - September
Y2  - 2025
JF  - Yazmabilim: Yazma Eser Araştırmaları Dergisi
JO  - Yazmabilim
PB  - Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 3108-5091
SP  - 367
EP  - 372
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - This review evaluates the recently published volume on Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār’s library, commending its innovative methodologies and its contribution to extending Ottoman library studies beyond the imperial center. At the same time, it highlights the volume’s limited engagement with archival documentation and its omission of the devastating impact of the sieges of Acre, both of which are crucial for understanding the library’s dissolution. Overall, the review situates the work as an important but preliminary step in reconstructing provincial Ottoman book culture.
KW  - Ottoman libraries
KW  - al-Jazzār
KW  - Acre
KW  - book culture
KW  - provincial collections
CR  - Hogg, Edward. Visit to Alexandria, Damascus, and Jerusalem During the Successful Campaign of Ibrahim Pasha. Vol. 2. London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, 160–63.
CR  - Fahmy, Khaled. All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 1997.
CR  - Artan, Tülay. “On Sekizinci Yüzyıl Başında Osmanlı Bilgi Üretimi ve Dağılımı: Yazma Eser Koleksiyonları ve Koleksiyonerler Arasında Şehid Ali Paşa’nın Yeri.” Müteferrika, no. 58 (2020).
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yazmabilim/issue//1793021
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/5282876
ER  -