Mauro Nobili (mauronob81@yahoo.it) received his Ph.D. in “African Studies” at the University of Napoli «L’Orientale» in 2008. He has published the Catalogue des manuscrits arabes du fonds de Gironcourt (Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente “C. A. Nallino”, 2013 – forthcoming) and different contributions on West African manuscripts, such as "Écriture et transmission du savoir islamique au Mali: le cas du ṣaḥrāwī,” “Arabic Scripts in West African Manuscripts: A tentative classification from the de Gironcourt Manuscript Collection,” and “Bookishness in the Sokoto Caliphate and the Arabic documents relating to the jihādī literary production in the de Gironcourt Collection of Arabic Manuscripts.” After a post-doc at the the University of Cape Town, he is currently Assistant Professor of Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, and a researcher at the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project.
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