Mónika Schönléber is a postdoctoral researcher at the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies in Hungary. She studied History and Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest) and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She earned her PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. Her primary research interests include early and classical Muslim historiography, the history of the late antique Middle East, and Arabic manuscript studies. She contributed to a Hungarian research project that published the library catalogue of Sultan Bayazit II, for which she edited and analysed the chapter on historical books (with A. Barati). Her professional experience also includes teaching Classical Arabic at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and Pázmány Péter Catholic University.