The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa / / edited by Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon.
As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and how...
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| Superior document: | Library of the written word, v. 8 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the written word ;
8. Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- A historic geography of the trans-Saharan trade / Eric Ross
- A thirst for knowledge : Arabic literacy, writing paper, and Saharan bibliophiles in Southwestern Sahara / Ghislaine Lydon
- The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan / Terence Walz
- The historic "core curriculum" and the book market in Islamic West Africa / Bruce S. Hall and Charles C. Stewart
- The book and the nature of knowledge in Muslim Northern Nigeria, 1457-2007 / Murray Last
- Literary culture and Arabic manuscripts in 19th-century Ilorin / Stefan Reichmuth
- An overview of major manuscript libraries in Timbuktu / Abdel Kader Haidara
- Information and communication technologies for the preservation and valorization of manuscript collections in Morocco / Said Ennahid
- Coming to terms with tradition : manuscript conservation in contemporary Algeria / Judith Scheele
- Camel to kilobytes : preserving the cultural heritage of the trans-Saharan book trade / Graziano Krätli.