The trans-Saharan book trade manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa / [electronic resource] :
edited by Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- xii, 422 p. : ill., maps.
- Library of the written word, v. 8 1874-4834 ; Library of the written word. The manuscript world ; v. 3 .
- Library of the written word ; 8. Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 3. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Manuscripts, Arabic--Africa, Northwest. Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Africa, Northwest. Codicology--Africa, Northwest. Book industries and trade--History.--Africa, Northwest Islamic learning and scholarship--History.--Africa, Northwest