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Timbuktu manuscripts

مخطوطات تمبكتو

A corpus of hundreds of thousands of Islamic, Arabic and African manuscripts in Timbuktu; a great civilizational archive in Mali.

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Libraries, paper and the bookScripture and its sciences

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A collection of hundreds of thousands of Islamic, Arabic and African manuscripts in Timbuktu; a large cultural archive in Mali. 1

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Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an

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islam.museum contributors. “Timbuktu manuscripts”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/mukhtutat-timbuktu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)

A house of learning founded by Abu Nasr Sabur ibn Ardashir, vizier of Baha' al-Dawla. In 381 he bought a house between the two walls, brought into it books of every discipline, more than ten thousand volumes, and endowed it for students of knowledge. It stood for about seventy years, until it burned when Tughril Beg entered Baghdad in 450.