The Library of Aḥmad Pasha Al-Jazzār: Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine

2 volumes.  The first volumes contains contributions exploring various aspects of the collection and it's broader context.   The second volume provides a facsimile of the inventory, a critical edition and index of the collection of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century.

Contents:

• List of Figures and Tables
• Contributors
• Introduction: The City, the Endowment and the Manuscripts / Said Aljoumani, Guy Burak and Konrad Hirschler 

Part 1 The History of al-Jazzār, His Library and the Inventory 

• Al-Jazzār's Library and Its Ottoman Context / Berat Açıl, Nimet İpek and Guy Burak
• The Inventory: Documentary and Bibliographical Practices in al-Jazzār's Library / Said Aljoumani
• From Whom and for Whom? The Audience and Provenance of al-Jazzār's Manuscripts / Boris Liebrenz
• Historical Representations of al-Jazzār: 'Butcher' or Patron of the Poor? / Feras Krimsti
• Uncovering al-Jazzār's Wealth: Confiscation and Power Struggle  / Yasin Arslantaş
• The Library of Abū Nabbūt in Early Nineteenth-century Jaffa  / Benedikt Reier
• A (Mostly) Local Story: The Translocations of al-Jazzār's Books in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  / Konrad Hirschler 

Part 2 The Materiality of al-Jazzār's Manuscripts 

• Notes on Materials: How Brief Descriptions Indicate Substantial Losses / Karin Scheper
• Calligraphic Descriptions / Nimet İpek and Guy Burak
• The Endowment Seals / Boris Liebrenz
• By the Keepers' Hands: Comparing the Inks of Endowment Statements, Mottos and Seals / Claudia Colini and Kyle Ann Huskin

Part 3 The Intellectual Profile of al-Jazzār's Library: The Inventory's Sections 

• The Qurʾan Section ( maṣāḥif ) / Walid A. Saleh
• A Foreshadowing: The Qurʾan Commentary Section ( tafsīr ) / WalidA. Saleh
• The Recitation Section ( qirāʾāt ) / Shady H. Nasser
• The ḥadīth Section / Garrett Davidson
• The Section on Islamic Law ( fiqh ) / Ahmed El Shamsy
• Books on Islamic Theology ( tawḥīd ) and Sufism ( taṣawwuf ): Rational Verification and Experiential Learning in Ottoman Palestine / Hadel Jarada
• Textbooks of Grammar, Morphology and Lexicography: Cosmopolitan Arabic Philology in Early Nineteenth-century Acre / Christopher Bahl
• Manuals for Manners: Books on adab / Berat Açıl
• Logic in the Jazzār Collection (manṭiq ) / Asad Q. Ahmed
• The Poetry Section ( al-dawāwīn wa-al-qaṣāʾid ): Pedagogy and Devotional Piety / Khalil Sawan
• The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section ( tārīkh ) / Dana Sajdi
• Amassing Medicine ( ṭibb ): Selections from an Ottoman Governor's Medical Collection / Deborah Schlein
• The Occult Sciences / Liana Saif
• A Language-oriented Approach: The Section on Persian and Turkish Books / Berat Açıl

• Edition of the Inventory /Said Aljoumani
• Facsimile of the Inventory
• Index of the Inventory's Book Titles
• List of Identified al-Jazzār Manuscripts and Their Current Location