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English literature --- Physicians --- Fiction --- Water-supply. --- Allopathic doctors --- Doctors --- Doctors of medicine --- MDs (Physicians) --- Medical doctors --- Medical profession --- Medical personnel --- Medicine --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Africa, Central. --- Sahara --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Water-supply --- Africa, Central
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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.
West Africa --- Trade routes --- Sahara --- Routes commerciales --- Islam --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Africa, West --- Afrique occidentale --- Pays musulmans --- Commerce --- Relations --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1899 --- Commercial routes --- Foreign trade routes --- Ocean routes --- Routes of trade --- Sea lines of communication --- Sea routes --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North --- Africa, Western --- Western Africa --- History. --- Islamic countries --- Muslim countries --- Arts and Humanities
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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.
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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