Paper presented by Boris Liebrenz: “Aḍwā’ ǧadīda ʽalā maktabat al-ḥāǧǧ Aḥmad al-Rabbāṭ (New Light on the Library of Aḥmad al-Rabbāṭ)” at the workshop Maktabāt Dimašq wa-tiǧārat al-kutub fīhā fī l-qarn al-tāsiʽ ʽašar (Damascene Libraries and the Book Trade in the 19th Century), Beirut, Orient-Institut Beirut in collaboration with Free University Berlin