Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Spelling and Transliteration -- Introduction: Time and Space in the Sahara -- PART 1. FRAMING SAHARAN AFRICA -- 1. Situations Both Alike?: Connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara -- 2. On Being Saharan -- 3. Saharan Trade in Classical Antiquity -- 4. Frontiers, Borderlands, and Saharan/World History -- PART 2. ENVIRONMENT, TERRITORY, AND COMMUNITY -- 5. The Rites of Baba Merzug: Diaspora, Ibadism, and Social Status in the Valley of the Mzab -- 6. Celebrating Mawlid in Timimoun: Ritual as Words in Motion, Space as Time Stood Still -- 7. Villages and Crossroads: Changing Territorialities among the Tuareg of Northern Mali -- 8. Ethnicity and Interdependence: Moors and Haalpulaaren in the Senegal Valley -- PART 3. STRANGERS, SPACE, AND LABOR -- 9. Mauritania and the New Frontier of Europe: From Transit to Residence -- 10. Living Together and Living Apart in Nouakchott -- 11. Cultural Interaction and the Artisanal Economy in Tamanrasset -- PART 4. ECONOMIES OF MOVEMENT -- 12. Notes on the Informal Economy in Southern Morocco -- 13. Garage or Caravanserail: Saharan Connectivity in Al-Khalīl, Northern Mali -- 14. Movements of People and Goods: Local Impacts and Dynamics of Migration to and through the Central Sahara -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- Q -- S -- T -- W -- Z -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.