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Hence, Timbuktu would mean "place covered by small dunes". [7] Abd al-Sadi offers a third explanation in his 17th-century Tarikh al-Sudan: "The Tuareg made it a depot for their belongings and provisions, and it grew into a crossroads for travelers coming and going. Looking after their belongings was a slave woman of theirs called Timbuktu ...
Starting out as a seasonal settlement, Timbuktu was in the kingdom of Mali when it became a permanent settlement early in the 12th century. After a shift in trading routes, the town flourished from the trade in salt, gold, ivory and slaves from several towns and states such as Begho of Bonoman, Sijilmassa, and other Saharan cities. [1]
Timbuktu Manuscripts, or Tombouctou Manuscripts, is a blanket term for the large number of historically significant manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali.
Tombouctou Region or Timbuktu Region (Bambara: ߕߎߡߎߕߎ ߘߌߣߋߖߊ, Tumutu Dineja) is one of the administrative regions of Mali. For administrative purposes, the region is subdivided into five cercles .
Rabbi Mordechai Aby Serour circa 1870s - 1880s. Last Rabbi of Timbuktu. Former Timbuktu house and synagogue of Rabbi Mordechai Aby Serour used circa 1870s - 1880s. Rabbi Mordechai Abi Serour, with his brother Yitzhaq, came from Morocco in 1859 to be a trader in Timbuktu. At the time of Rabbi Serour's bold enterprise, direct trade relations with ...
Timbuktu subsequently acquired a reputation for Islamic learning and scholarship within the Sahel and North Africa. [4] [7] According to African scholar Shamil Jeppie in The Meanings of Timbuktu: Timbuktu is a repository of history, a living archive which anybody with a concern for African history should be acquainted with.
The preface of this anonymous 24-page document announced that it was written at the request of Askiya Dawud b. Harun. He is known to have reigned in Timbuktu between 1657 and 1669. The text of the manuscript is closely related to the Tarikh al-fattash and presents similar material in a similar order. It includes an introduction which differs ...
In 1646 he became chief secretary to the Arma administration of Timbuktu. The early sections of the chronicle are devoted to brief histories of earlier Songhay dynasties, of the Mali Empire and of the Tuareg, and to biographies of the scholars and holymen of both Timbuktu and Djenné. The main part of the chronicle covers the history of the ...