The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa / edited by Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon
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 Bilād as-Sūdān / 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 Ilọrin / Stefan Reichmuth -- An overview of major manuscript libraries in Timbuktu / Abdel Kader Haïdara -- 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