Medieval Africa

Timbuktu Held More Books Than Any City on Earth

While Europeans were burning books as heretical, a West African city held more manuscripts than anywhere else on Earth.

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Medieval Africa16th CenturyIslamic ScholarshipWest AfricaIntellectual HistoryManuscript CultureSonghai EmpireCultural DestructionAhmed BabaTimbuktu

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