عنوان

<The> trans-Saharan book trade

9789004187429 (acid-free paper)

2-15247

انگلیسی

: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa

/ edited by Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon.

; Boston

: Brill

, 2011.

xii, 422 p. :

ill. ;

25 cm.

The manuscript world ;

v. 3

1874-4834 ;

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 Krätli.

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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 - History.

Krätli, Graziano.

Lydon, Ghislaine.

20120815070142.0

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251648

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