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A movie about the Timbuktu Manuscript Project, The Ancient Astronomers of Timbuktu, was released in 2009 with funding from the Ford Foundation and Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. [ 39 ] The French/German cultural TV channel ARTE produced a feature-length film about Timbuktu's manuscript heritage in 2009 entitled " Tombouctou: les manuscrits sauvés ...
Haidara traveled to New York in 2009, where manuscripts from his library were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [9] In 2010, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., included manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library in a web exhibit, "Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu." [10]
The city of Timbuktu developed out of a semi-permanent campsite established by the Tuareg people in the late 1100s A.D. to early 1200s A.D. [2] [3] Due to the Tuaregs having established the area as a way-station for supplies and provisions, which was often visited by travelers and merchants passing by, it eventually became a large trading city.
Timbuktu was a world centre of Islamic learning from the 13th to the 17th century, especially under the Mali Empire and Askia Mohammad I's rule. The Malian government and NGOs have been working to catalogue and restore the remnants of this scholarly legacy: Timbuktu's manuscripts. [86]
And hither are brought divers manuscripts or written books out of Barbarie, which are sold for more money than any other merchandize." [ 22 ] Some Sankoré scholars accumulated large private libraries, with over 1600 manuscripts, [ 4 ] though there was no public library or university library in Timbuktu. [ 18 ]
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The Timbuktu manuscripts in Timbuktu, Mali, which are the most well known set of manuscripts in West Africa, [1] are estimated in number to total between 101,820 manuscripts [2] and 348,531 manuscripts. [4]
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