Hafız Ahmed Agha Library in Rhodes – Where Manuscripts and History Inspire Scholarship and Muhabbet
Author(s): Tarik Tuten
Publication date: June 22, 2026
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Abstract
The Hafız Ahmed Agha Library in Rhodes was inaugurated in 1793, a year after the establishment of the charitable foundation in Istanbul that was created to sustain it. Its founder, Hafız Ahmed Agha, was born on the island of Rhodes in the early 1740s and, while still a child, was sent to the Enderûn, the prestigious palace school of the Ottoman court in Istanbul. Following his education, he embarked upon a distinguished career in the imperial palace, serving under three successive sultans before retiring in 1789.
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