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The Sankore Curriculum: Inside Timbuktu's Medieval University
Long before the University of al-Qarawiyyin or the Sorbonne, Timbuktu's Sankore mosque was the intellectual epicenter of West Africa. But what did students actually study there? In this episode, Lucas and Luna pull back the shroud on Sankore's curriculum: the Maliki fiqh texts that anchored legal training, the ijazas or certificates that linked Timbuktu to Cairo and Fez, the mathematics and astronomy borrowed from al-Battani and al-Zarqali, and the surprising focus on medicine, grammar, and logic. They explore how Sankore’s system of knowledge transmission was both deeply Islamic…
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