Timbuktu as centre of Islamic learning
1325–1600* · Event
The Djinguereber Mosque and Sankoré madrasah make Timbuktu a centre of Islamic scholarship from the 14th century, at its height in the 15th and 16th; its libraries hold tens of thousands of manuscripts.
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