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Timbuktu's Golden Age: The University of the Sands
In 1324, Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca put the Mali Empire on the map—but it was the intellectual legacy of Timbuktu that truly shaped history. This episode takes you to the legendary Djinguereber Mosque, where scholars like Ahmed Baba built libraries that rivaled any in the medieval world. We explore how West African universities flourished on the trans-Saharan trade, attracting thinkers from Cairo to Córdoba. Discover the Sankore curriculum, the astronomical treatises of al-Qadi, and the legal debates that made Timbuktu a center of Islamic jurisprudence. Learn why the city's…
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