Brigaglia Andrea & Nobili Mauro (eds.). — The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa ; Krätli Graziano & Lydon Ghislaine (eds.). — The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Focusing on Islamic manuscript cultures, The Trans-Saharan Book Trade and The Arts and Crafts of Literacy contribute considerably to our understanding not only of the provenance, use, and authority of book manuscripts, but also their materiality in trans-Saharan Africa and various regions in sub-Saharan Africa respectively. A major concern of the editors is to move toward a more integrative approach in collecting, preserving, and studying these cultur..