مكتبة الأمين Beirut, since 1987
A library for the curious.
Rare editions, new voices, and six reading rooms that stay open till midnight. Al-Ameen keeps the books worth keeping — and the light on for the restless.
Shelf No. 01
Chosen this week.
Twelve staff picks, pulled from the floor and left on the reading table. Every order leaves with a linen bookmark.
The floor plan
Six rooms. One door.
Each room is shelved by hand and rearranged when something better arrives. Start wherever the light is on.
This week’s shelf talker
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak · Penguin, 2010 · Translated from the Turkish
A wandering dervish meets a householder in thirteenth-century Konya, and the rules they trade over forty days still read like instructions for a life. Our most-requested reorder this autumn.
- Pages
- 354
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Condition
- New
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation.”
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
The Thursday letter
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