Maurits H. van den Boogert (PhD, Leiden 2001) studied Arabic at Leiden. He is the author of The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System (2005) and has (co-)edited four volumes, including The Republic of Letters and the Levant (2005with Alastair Hamilton and Bart Westerweek), and The Ottoman Capitulations: Text and Context (2003with Kate Fleet). Van den Boogert, who works as a publisher for Brill, is guest lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies (LUCIS) and at Leidens School for History. He is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

• PART I: ALEXANDER AND PATRICK RUSSELL; PART II: ALEPPO

Like previous publications from the Arcadian Library, Aleppo Observed is a beautifully and lavishly illustrated book that will be a joy for the connoisseur and a treasure for the scholar. Maurits H. van den Boogert's scholarship is impeccable

Maurits H. van den Boogert (PhD, Leiden 2001) studied Arabic at Leiden. He is the author of The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System (2005) and has (co-)edited four volumes, including The Republic of Letters and the Levant (2005with Alastair Hamilton and Bart Westerweek), and The Ottoman Capitulations: Text and Context (2003with Kate Fleet). Van den Boogert, who works as a publisher for Brill, is guest lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies (LUCIS) and at Leidens School for History. He is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

• PART I: ALEXANDER AND PATRICK RUSSELL; PART II: ALEPPO

Like previous publications from the Arcadian Library, Aleppo Observed is a beautifully and lavishly illustrated book that will be a joy for the connoisseur and a treasure for the scholar. Maurits H. van den Boogert's scholarship is impeccable

Maurits H. van den Boogert (PhD, Leiden 2001) studied Arabic at Leiden. He is the author of The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System (2005) and has (co-)edited four volumes, including The Republic of Letters and the Levant (2005with Alastair Hamilton and Bart Westerweek), and The Ottoman Capitulations: Text and Context (2003with Kate Fleet). Van den Boogert, who works as a publisher for Brill, is guest lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies (LUCIS) and at Leidens School for History. He is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

• PART I: ALEXANDER AND PATRICK RUSSELL; PART II: ALEPPO

Like previous publications from the Arcadian Library, Aleppo Observed is a beautifully and lavishly illustrated book that will be a joy for the connoisseur and a treasure for the scholar. Maurits H. van den Boogert's scholarship is impeccable