The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa

CONTENTS......Page 8
Note on Transliteration and Spelling......Page 14
Maps......Page 16
Foreword......Page 10
A Historical Geography of the Trans-Saharan Trade......Page 18
A Thirst for Knowledge: Arabic Literacy, Writing Paper and Saharan Bibliophiles in the Southwestern Sahara......Page 52
The Paper Trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and its Re-export to the Bilād as-Sūdān......Page 90
The Historic “Core Curriculum” and the Book Market\nin Islamic West Africa......Page 126
The Book and the Nature of Knowledge in Muslim\nNorthern Nigeria, 1457–2007......Page 192
Literary Culture and Arabic Manuscripts in 19th-Century\nIlọrin......Page 230
An Overview of the Major Manuscript Libraries in Timbuktu......Page 258
Information and Communication Technologies for the......Page 282
Coming to Terms with Tradition: Manuscript Conservation\nin Contemporary Algeria......Page 308
Camel to Kilobytes: Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the\nTrans-Saharan Book Trade......Page 336
Glossary......Page 376
African Toponyms Mentioned in the Volume......Page 385
Bibliography......Page 392
Notes on Contributors......Page 410
Index......Page 416