Writing Timbuktu : the book in West African history / Shamil Jeppie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeppie, Shamil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Africa, West--History.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Mali--Tombouctou--History.

Mali--Tombouctou.

Mali.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 209 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2026]

Summary:

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa Printed books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century.And yet, between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, literate and curious readers throughout the region found books to read--books that were written and copied by hand.

Contents:

Frontmatter

contents

list of illustrations

acknowledgments

note on transliteration

key dates

list of authors discussed

titles of key manuscripts mentioned

glossary

Introduction

1 Discovering Books in the Desert

2 The Education of Ahmad Baba, 1556-91

3 Exile in Marrakesh

4 Ahmad Baba's Later Years in Timbuktu, 1608-27

5 The Rise of Shinqit

6 The Kunta Writers

7 The Collector of Timbuktu

8 Manuscript, Print, and Memory

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Jeppie, Shamil Writing Timbuktu

ISBN:

9780691273846

0-691-27384-7

OCLC:

1547899483