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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Other Authors: Krätli, Graziano (Editor), Lydon, Ghislaine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 3.
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