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" The trans-Saharan book trade : "
edited by Graziano Kratli, Ghislaine Lydon.
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BL
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214
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b18256
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English
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| Title & Author
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The trans-Saharan book trade : : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa /\ edited by Graziano Kratli, Ghislaine Lydon.
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, 2011.
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| Series Statement
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Library of the written word,; v. 8.The manuscript world ;; v. 3
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xii, 422 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm.
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9789004187429 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Manuscripts, Arabic-- Africa, Northwest.
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Manuscripts-- Collectors and collecting-- Africa, Northwest.
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Codicology-- Africa, Northwest.
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Book industries and trade-- Africa, Northwest-- History.
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Islamic learning and scholarship-- Africa, Northwest-- History.
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Sahara-- Commerce-- History.
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| Dewey Classification
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011/.31096824
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Z106.5.A3554T73 2011
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Kratli, Graziano.
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Lydon, Ghislaine.
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