Sébastien Garnier was educated at INALCO and EHESS (Paris), with additional trainings taken in foreign institutions. Agrégé in Arabic (2008) and Ph.D. in History (2019), he published in 2022 his Histoires hafsides by Brill. Specialized in the study of medieval Western Islam, he is a co-founding member of LibMed, an academic community actively working on premodern Libya. His research has shifted to “memories as local competitors”. Besides, he is supervising the forthcoming catalogue of the manuscripts kept at the National Library of Libya. Since 2023, he has become editor-in-chief for Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, a position he now shares with Prof. Arianna d’Ottone.