Material book culture in the Ottoman provinces. The case of al-Jazzar Library of Acre
The al-Jazzar Library was founded by the Ottoman governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (d. 1804). While al-Jazzar is famous for his defeat of the Napoleonic troops and his massive building projects to change the urban topography of Acre, his library has so far remained on the margins of scholarly interest.