diff --git a/crawl4ai/browser_manager.py b/crawl4ai/browser_manager.py
index 70ed20e4..8fed970c 100644
--- a/crawl4ai/browser_manager.py
+++ b/crawl4ai/browser_manager.py
@@ -608,6 +608,11 @@ class BrowserManager:
         self.contexts_by_config = {}
         self._contexts_lock = asyncio.Lock()
         
+        # Serialize context.new_page() across concurrent tasks to avoid races
+        # when using a shared persistent context (context.pages may be empty
+        # for all racers). Prevents 'Target page/context closed' errors.
+        self._page_lock = asyncio.Lock()
+        
         # Stealth-related attributes
         self._stealth_instance = None
         self._stealth_cm = None 
@@ -1027,13 +1032,26 @@ class BrowserManager:
                 context = await self.create_browser_context(crawlerRunConfig)
                 ctx = self.default_context        # default context, one window only
                 ctx = await clone_runtime_state(context, ctx, crawlerRunConfig, self.config)
-                page = await ctx.new_page()
+                # Avoid concurrent new_page on shared persistent context
+                # See GH-1198: context.pages can be empty under races
+                async with self._page_lock:
+                    page = await ctx.new_page()
             else:
                 context = self.default_context
                 pages = context.pages
                 page = next((p for p in pages if p.url == crawlerRunConfig.url), None)
                 if not page:
-                    page = context.pages[0] # await context.new_page()
+                    if pages:
+                        page = pages[0]
+                    else:
+                        # Double-check under lock to avoid TOCTOU and ensure only
+                        # one task calls new_page when pages=[] concurrently
+                        async with self._page_lock:
+                            pages = context.pages
+                            if pages:
+                                page = pages[0]
+                            else:
+                                page = await context.new_page()
         else:
             # Otherwise, check if we have an existing context for this config
             config_signature = self._make_config_signature(crawlerRunConfig)
diff --git a/tests/general/test_persistent_context.py b/tests/general/test_persistent_context.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..48c01bff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/general/test_persistent_context.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import asyncio
+import os
+from crawl4ai.async_webcrawler import AsyncWebCrawler
+from crawl4ai.async_configs import BrowserConfig, CrawlerRunConfig, CacheMode
+
+# Simple concurrency test for persistent context page creation
+# Usage: python scripts/test_persistent_context.py
+
+URLS = [
+    # "https://example.com",
+    "https://httpbin.org/html",
+    "https://www.python.org/",
+    "https://www.rust-lang.org/",
+]
+
+async def main():
+    profile_dir = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".crawl4ai", "profiles", "test-persistent-profile")
+    os.makedirs(profile_dir, exist_ok=True)
+
+    browser_config = BrowserConfig(
+        browser_type="chromium",
+        headless=True,
+        use_persistent_context=True,
+        user_data_dir=profile_dir,
+        use_managed_browser=True,
+        verbose=True,
+    )
+
+    run_cfg = CrawlerRunConfig(
+        cache_mode=CacheMode.BYPASS,
+        stream=False,
+        verbose=True,
+    )
+
+    async with AsyncWebCrawler(config=browser_config) as crawler:
+        results = await crawler.arun_many(URLS, config=run_cfg)
+        for r in results:
+            print(r.url, r.success, len(r.markdown.raw_markdown) if r.markdown else 0)
+        # r = await crawler.arun(url=URLS[0], config=run_cfg)
+        # print(r.url, r.success, len(r.markdown.raw_markdown) if r.markdown else 0)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())