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TimBuKuTu, famed for its University at Sankore,
was a place of scholarship and higher learning in the mighty SonGhaye Empire.
Step across the sands of time and experience its enchantment.
TimBuKuTu means
    "fastened break pot".
Source: Revelation, The Movement of the Akan People from Kanaan to Ghana

LOCATION : Ideal.
TimBuKuTu’s location at the meeting point of desert and water made it an ideal trading centre.
In the late 13th or early 14th century it was incorporated into the Mali empire.
It is located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 miles (13 km) north of the Niger River.

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Origin: 1100ce
Timbuktu was founded about 1100 ce as a seasonal camp by Tuareg nomads.
(source: Britannica)

PILGRIMAGE : He carried so much gold to Mecca that he caused the price of gold to drop.
On his return, in 1324, the Mali emperor Mansa Mūsā built the Great Mosque (Djinguereber) and a royal residence, the Madugu
(the former has since been rebuilt many times, and of the latter no trace remains).

The Granada architect Abū Isḥāq al-Sāḥili was then commissioned to design the Sankore mosque, around which Sankore University was established.
The mosque still stands today, probably because of al-Sāḥili’s directive to incorporate a wooden framework into the mud walls of the building, thus facilitating annual repairs after the rainy season.

The Tuareg regained control of the city in 1433, but they ruled from the desert.
Although the Tuareg exacted sizable tributes and plundered periodically, trade and learning continued to flourish in Timbuktu.
By 1450 its population increased to about 100,000.
The city’s scholars, many of whom had studied in Mecca or in Egypt, numbered some 25,000.
Source: Britannica

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"Sonni Ali, & Askia dynasty "...

......In 1468 the city was conquered by the Songhai ruler Sonni ʿAlī.
He was generally ill disposed toward the city’s Muslim scholars, but his successor—
the first ruler of the new Askia dynasty, Muḥammad I Askia of Songhai (reigned 1493–1528)—
used the scholarly elite as legal and moral counselors.

During the Askia period (1493–1591)
Timbuktu was at the height of its commercial and intellectual development.
Merchants from Ghudāmis (Ghadamis; now in Libya), Augila (now Awjidah, Libya), and numerous other cities of North Africa gathered there to buy
gold and slaves in exchange for the Saharan salt of Taghaza and for North African cloth and horses ....
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.........More info Source: Britannica & Revelation...........
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