TARIKH TUESDAY
Timbuktu was now a part of the Mali empire and came under the rule of Mansa Musa in the early 1300’s.
There was a magnificent cultural upheaval and the city came to the forefront of Islamic knowledge.
Muslim scholars were sent to Morocco to gain higher education in order to benefit the people of Mali.
Mansa bought back Abu Ishaq, the Spanish architect, with him from his journey to Mecca and tasked him with building schools, libraries, universities and palaces.
It was a sight to behold.
Mansa Musa built the greatest Mosque of Africa in it’s time and managed to attract a huge influx of Islamic scholars.
Three of the great masjids of this city still stand today.
Timbuktu was to become a centre of knowledge and remained so for hundreds of years.
DID YOU KNOW?
In the early 1400s the Arab scholar al-Tamimi came to Timbuktu to study fiqh.
It was so advanced that he had to travel to Morocco to learn the minimum requirements before he could study with scholars of Mali!
Source: Lost Islamic History and Britannica online
