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The Timbuktu Education System That Produced a Golden Age
Before the Moroccan invasion scattered its scholars, Timbuktu boasted a sophisticated decentralized education system that rivaled any medieval university. This episode traces the curriculum at Sankore, the role of private manuscript libraries as textbooks, and the way students advanced through a system based on mastery rather than years. Lucas and Luna explore how a city of mud-brick mosques became a beacon for scholars from across the Muslim world, and how that system collapsed under occupation.
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