The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa

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.
Subjects:
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.
REFERENCE.
Book industries and trade
Codicology
Commerce
Islamic learning and scholarship
Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting
Boekhandel.
Handschriften.
Moslims.
Sahara > Commerce > History.
Northwest Africa
Sahara
Noordwest-Afrika.
History
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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 Krätli.

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