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The day of creation
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ISBN: 0575041528 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Gollancz


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On Trans-Saharan trails : Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa
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ISBN: 9781107611788 9780521887243 0521887240 9780511575457 1107611784 1107200830 1282103679 9786612103674 0511575459 051151509X 0511517726 0511514182 0511516371 9780511517723 0511517238 9780511517235 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders from the Wād Nūn region, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas and interviews with retired caravaners, Professor Lydon shows how traders used their literacy skills in Arabic and how they had recourse to experts of Islamic law to regulate their long-distance transactions. The book also examines the strategies devised by women to participate in caravan trade. By embracing a continental approach, this study bridges the divide between West African and North African studies. The work will be of interest to historians of Africa, the Middle East, and the world and to scholars of long-distance trade, Muslim societies and Islamic law.


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The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa
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ISBN: 9789004187429 9004187421 9789004193611 9004193618 1283126729 9781283126724 9786613126726 6613126721 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden Boston : Brill,

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As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and how did they acquire scholarly works and the writing paper necessary to contribute to knowledge? By exploring the history of the trans-Saharan book and paper trades, the scholarly production and teaching curricula of African Muslims and the formation, preservation and codicology of library collections, the authors of this original volume provide a variety of answers. The select number of invited contributions represents current research in the material, technological, economic, and cultural dimensions of manuscript production, circulation, and preservation, and the development of specific scholarly and intellectual traditions in Saharan and Sudanic Africa.

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091 <6> --- 091 =927 --- 091 =927 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- 091 <6> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Afrika --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Afrika --- Arabic literature --- Northern Africa --- West Africa --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Manuscrits arabes --- Codicologie --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Sahara --- Book industries and trade -- Africa, Northwest -- History. --- Codicology -- Africa, Northwest. --- Islamic learning and scholarship -- Africa, Northwest -- History. --- Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Africa, Northwest. --- Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, Northwest. --- Sahara -- Commerce -- History. --- Reference & resource series. --- REFERENCE. --- Handschriften. --- Moslims. --- Noordwest-Afrika. --- North Africa --- Book industries and trade --- Codicology --- Manuscripts --- Boekhandel. --- Commerce --- History. --- Collectors and collecting --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Manuscriptology --- Bibliography --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Arabic manuscripts --- History --- Commerce&delete& --- Intellectual life --- Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Manuscrits --- Livres --- Musulmans --- Industrie --- Savoir et érudition --- Histoire --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North

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