TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krätli,Graziano
AU  - Lydon,Ghislaine
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa 
T2  - Library of the written word,
AV  - Z106.5.A3554 T73 2011eb
U1  - 011/.31096824 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Manuscripts, Arabic
KW  - Africa, Northwest
KW  - Manuscripts
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Codicology
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - History
KW  - Islamic learning and scholarship
KW  - Sahara
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10476248
ER  -