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Timbuktu’s Medieval Manuscripts Return Home After a Decade Away Safe from Insurgents

Kept within the centers of learning in Timbuktu, their existence was threatened by Islamic insurgents that spread through ...
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Timbuktu's Fragile Heritage: The Heroic Rescue of Ancient Manuscripts

The heroic efforts to save thousands of ancient manuscripts from Timbuktu are celebrated as cultural treasures return home.
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Timbuktu's ancient manuscripts return home but security threats remain

“The families that hold the manuscripts are in a difficult situation and receive no support. So, when these families have ...

Timbuktu's famed manuscripts escaped al-Qaida but the threat remains

Residents of the West African city of Timbuktu smuggled out tens of thousands of priceless manuscripts over a decade ago as ...
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The meanings of Timbuktu / edited by Samil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Prolegomena -- Introduction to the Timbuktu region -- African Arabic literature as a source of history -- Scholars of Timbuktu -- The Timbuktu libraries -- Beyond Timbuktu siris_sil_923273 ...
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Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa / Ousmane Oumar Kane

Reviewed by Rudolph Ware III in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 59 (3) 2018, pages 530-532 (DT1.J858 AFA). Reviewed by Souleyman Bachir Diagne in African studies review (Piscataway, NJ ...