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The Kunta Clan: Timbuktu's Sufi Power Brokers
Long before the great libraries heist of 2012, another clan quietly shaped Timbuktu's intellectual legacy. The Kunta, a Sufi dynasty of scholars and diplomats, controlled the Qadiriyya order across the Sahel for centuries. This episode follows Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti, the 18th-century jurist whose library rivaled Sankore's, and his descendants who mediated conflicts between Tuareg nomads and Songhai farmers. We explore how the Kunta balanced scholarship with politics, preserved thousands of manuscripts during the Moroccan invasion, and kept Timbuktu's knowledge networks alive…
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