| Description |
xii, 422 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 8 |
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Library of the written word. The manuscript world ; v. 3 |
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Library of the written word ; 8.
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Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
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 Kratli. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
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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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kratli, Graziano.
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Lydon, Ghislaine.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004187429 (acid-free paper) |
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9789004193611 (electronic bk.) |
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