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The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa
- Title
- The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa / edited by Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 11-200 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 422 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 8. The manuscript world ; v. 3
- Uniform Title
- Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 3.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 Krätli.
- Call Number
- JFF 11-200
- ISBN
- 9789004187429 (acid-free paper)
- 9004187421 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2010033343
- OCLC
- 663772851
- Title
- The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa / edited by Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon.
- Imprint
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Series
- Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 8. The manuscript world ; v. 3Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 3.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Krätli, Graziano.Lydon, Ghislaine.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 11-200