The trans-Saharan book trade manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa (Brill, 2011)
A historic geography of the trans-Saharan trade / Eric Ross – A thirst for knowledge : Arabic literacy, writing paper, and Saharan bibliophiles in Southwestern Sahara / Ghislaine Lydon – The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan / Terence Walz – The historic "core curriculum" and the book market in Islamic West Africa / Bruce S. Hall and Charles C. Stewart – The book and the nature of knowledge in Muslim Northern Nigeria, 1457-2007 / Murray Last – Literary culture and Arabic manuscripts in 19th-century Ilorin / Stefan Reichmuth – An overview of major manuscript libraries in Timbuktu / Abdel Kader Haidara – Information and communication technologies for the preservation and valorization of manuscript collections in Morocco / Said Ennahid – Coming to terms with tradition : manuscript conservation in contemporary Algeria / Judith Scheele – Camel to kilobytes : preserving the cultural heritage of the trans-Saharan book trade / Graziano Krätli