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Chapter 1 - Re/discovering Timbuktu Shamil Jeppie |
Chapter 2 - Toward an intellectual history of West Africa: the meaning of Timbuktu Souleymane Bachir Diagne |
Chapter 3 - Before Timbuktu: cities of the elder world Roderick J McIntosh |
Chatper 4 - Paper in Soudanic Africa Jonathan M Bloom |
Chapter 5 - Arabic calligraphy in West Africa Sheila S Blair |
Chapter 6 - Timbuktu and Walata: lineages and higher education Timothy Cleaveland |
Chapter 7 - Intellectual innovation and reinvention of the Sahel: the seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicles Paulo F de Moraes Farias |
Chapter 8 - Ajami in Africa: the use of Arabic script in the transcription of African languages Moulaye Hassane |
Chapter 9 - Ajami literature and the study of the Sokoto Caliphate Hamid Boboyyi |
Chapter 10 - The book in the Sokoto Caliphate Murray Last |
Chapter 11 - Muslim women scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Morocco to Nigeria Beverly B Mack |
Chapter 12 - The Tombouctou Manuscript Project: social history approaches Aslam Farouk-Alli and Shaheed Mathee |
Chapter 13 - The life of Shaykh Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti Yahya Ould el-Bara |
Chapter 14 - The works of Shaykh Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti Mahamane Mahamoudou |
Chapter 15 - A man of letters in Timbuktu: al-Shaykh Sîdi Muhammad al-Kunti Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh |
Chapter 16 - Abul Khayr al-Arawani, great scholar and pious saint Mohamed Diagayeté |
Chapter 17 - The state of manuscripts in Mali and efforts to preserve them Abdelkader Mamma Haidara |
Chapter 18 - The private libraries of Timbuktu Ismaël Diadié Haidara & Haoua Taore |
Chapter 19 - Shaykh Baghayogho al-Wangari and the Wangari Library in Timbuktu Mukhtar bin Yahya al-Wangari |
Chapter 20 - The Ahmed Baba Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies and Research Sidi Mohammed Ould Youbba |
Chapter 21 - The Arabic Literature of Africa Project John Hunwick |
Chapter 22 - The West African Arabic manuscript database Charles C Stewart |
Chapter 23 - Arabic literature in the eastern half of Africa Sean O’Fahey |
Chapter 24 - Textual sources on an Islamic African past: Arabic material in Zanzibar’s National Archive Anne K Bang |
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