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Mansa Musa's Lost Library: The Manuscripts of Timbuktu
Beyond the gold and the hajj, Mansa Musa's Mali Empire bankrolled a golden age of scholarship in Timbuktu. This episode looks at the libraries that thrived under his patronage and their near-destruction centuries later. Lucas and Luna explore the Sankore and Djinguereber mosques as centers of learning, the manuscripts that covered astronomy, law, mathematics, and poetry, and the family archives that preserved them for generations. They trace the rise of Timbuktu's scholarly elite, from the jurists of the Tarikh al-Sudan to the astronomers who charted the heavens, and they follow the…
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