The trans-Saharan book trade [electronic resource] : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa / edited by Graziano Kr�atli, Ghislaine Lydon.
Series: Library of the written word ; 8. | Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; ; v. 3.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: xii, 422 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 011/.31096824 22
- Z106.5.A3554 T73 2011eb
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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