| Document Type | : | BL |
| Record Number | : | 214 |
| Doc. No | : | b18256 |
| Language of Document | : | English |
| Title & Author | : | The trans-Saharan book trade :manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa /edited by Graziano Kratli, Ghislaine Lydon. |
| Publication Statement | : | Leiden ;Boston :Brill,2011. |
| Series Statement | : | Library of the written word,v. 8.The manuscript world ;v. 3 |
| Page. NO | : | xii, 422 p. :ill. ;25 cm. |
| ISBN | : | 9789004187429 (acid-free paper) |
| Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Kr�atli. |
| Subject | : | Manuscripts, Arabic-- Africa, Northwest. |
| Subject | : | Manuscripts-- Collectors and collecting-- Africa, Northwest. |
| Subject | : | Codicology-- Africa, Northwest. |
| Subject | : | Book industries and trade-- Africa, Northwest-- History. |
| Subject | : | Islamic learning and scholarship-- Africa, Northwest-- History. |
| Subject | : | Sahara-- Commerce-- History. |
| Dewey Classification | : | 011/.31096824 |
| LC Classification | : | Z106.5.A3554T73 2011 |
| Added Entry | : | Kratli, Graziano. |
| | Lydon, Ghislaine. |