The trans-Saharan book trade manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Library of the written word, Library of the written word. The manuscript world ;
v. 8 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10476248 |
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 Krθatli.