The trans-Saharan book trade [electronic resource] : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa / edited by Graziano Kr�atli, Ghislaine Lydon.
Contributor(s): Kr�atli, Graziano | Lydon, Ghislaine | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Library of the written word: 8.; Library of the written wordManuscript world: v. 3.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011Description: xii, 422 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, Northwest | Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Africa, Northwest | Codicology -- Africa, Northwest | Book industries and trade -- Africa, Northwest -- History | Islamic learning and scholarship -- Africa, Northwest -- History | Sahara -- Commerce -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 011/.31096824 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Kr�atli.
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