The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa
ISBN-10
9004187421
ISBN-13
9789004187429
Category
Reference
Pages
422
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
BRILL
Authors
Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon

Description

Concerned with the history of scholarly production, book markets and trans-Saharan exchanges in Muslim African (primarily western and northern Africa), as well as the creation of manuscript libraries, this book consists of a collection of twelve essays that examine these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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