Kristof D'hulster Editor

Kristof D'hulster is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is based at the University of Bonn. He engages with the socio-political and cultural history of the pre- and early modern Islamic world, mapping processes of exchange, interaction and connectivity between the Arabic, Turkic, and Persian regions. Following his PhD on Turkic linguistics (KU Leuven, 2010), he was a research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and of ERC projects in Ghent, Birmingham and Jena. Next to his first monograph, Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves. Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of the Mamluk Sultan Q?ni?awh al-Ghawr? (Bonn University Library, 2021), recent publications include Will I be Happy, Will I be Rich? Three Lot-Books (Qur'a) from the Library of Q?ni?awh al-Mu?ammad? (al-'U??r al-Wus??, 2024) and Qayt Shar?f?'s Turkic Class Notes and Tamurb?y's First Arabic Scribbles: Language and Education at the Mamluk Barracks in Light of MS Ayasofya 1448 (Maml?k Studies Review, 2025).