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Mansa Musa's Lost Library: The Scholars of Timbuktu
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known dimension of Mansa Musa's reign: the intellectual infrastructure he built across the Mali Empire. While Timbuktu's Sankore University is often celebrated, Musa's patronage extended far beyond that single institution. They discuss the network of royal libraries, the training of qadis, the role of female scholars, and the manuscripts that survived centuries of upheaval. Drawing on accounts from al-Umari, Ibn Battuta, and the Tarikh al-Sudan, they reveal how Musa transformed West African scholarship and why his library system…
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