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The meanings of Timbuktu / edited by Samil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
Van Pelt Library DT551.9.T55 M43 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libraries.
- Islamic learning and scholarship.
- Tombouctou (Mali)--History.
- Tombouctou (Mali).
- Tombouctou (Mali)--Civilization--Arab influences.
- Tombouctou (Mali)--Intellectual life.
- Islamic learning and scholarship--Mali--Tombouctou.
- Libraries--Mali--Tombouctou.
- Mali--Tombouctou.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 375 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Timbuktu
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : HSRC Press in association with CODESRIA : distributed in North America by IPG, 2008.
- Contents:
- Prolegomena
- Introduction to the Timbuktu region
- African Arabic literature as a source of history
- Scholars of Timbuktu
- The Timbuktu libraries
- Beyond Timbuktu.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780796922045
- 0796922047
- OCLC:
- 184829143
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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