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An edition of The trans-Saharan book trade (2010)

The trans-Saharan book trade

manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa

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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 did they acquire scholarly works and the writing paper necessary to contribute to knowledge? By exploring the history of the trans-Saharan book and paper trades, the scholarly production and teaching curricula of African Muslims and the formation, preservation and codicology of library collections, the authors of this original volume provide a variety of answers. The select number of invited contributions represents current research in the material, technological, economic, and cultural dimensions of manuscript production, circulation, and preservation, and the development of specific scholarly and intellectual traditions in Saharan and Sudanic Africa.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
424

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Commerce Book industries and trade Arabic Manuscripts Islamic learning and scholarship Sahara Codicology Manuscripts Collectors and collecting History Book industries and trade, history Africa, north, history Boekhandel Handschriften Moslims Handschrift Arabisch Buchhandel Bokhandel Historia Bokhistoria Handskrifter

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Northwest Africa
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Cover of: Trans-Saharan Book Trade
Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa
2010, BRILL
in English
Cover of: The trans-Saharan book trade
The trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa
2010, Brill
in English

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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Library of the written word -- v. 8. -- The manuscript world -- v. 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
011/.31096824
Library of Congress
Z106.5.A3554 T73 2010, Z106.5.A3554 T73 2011, Z106.5.A3554T73 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
424

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24494577M
ISBN 13
9789004187429
LCCN
2010033343
OCLC/WorldCat
663772851

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Work ID
OL15538009W

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