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The Songhai Empire's City of Learning: Timbuktu's Golden Age
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Timbuktu's rise as a center of scholarship during the Songhai Empire. They discuss how the city's university, Sankore, attracted scholars from across the Islamic world, the role of libraries and manuscript culture, and the intellectual legacy that survived the Moroccan invasion. Along the way, they touch on key figures like Ahmed Baba, the Qadi of Timbuktu, whose library was said to contain 1,600 volumes, and the support of rulers like Askia Muhammad and Askia Dawud. The episode also looks at the economics of the book trade, the curriculum of…
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