Concerned with the history of scholarly production, book markets and trans-Saharan exchanges in Muslim African (primarily western and northern Africa), as well

This study examines the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material.

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwes

This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the sl

Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant writt