النخبة المقدسية: علماء المدينة وأعيانها

Adel Manna is a historian specializing in the history of Palestine during the Ottoman period. Two of his books have been published by the Institute for Palestine Studies (Beirut).This essay is a part of a new book in Arabic, The Jerusalem District during the Mid-Ottoman Period (1700- 1831), forthcoming from IPS. Manna is also a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute and directs the Center for the Study of Arab Society in Israel.