History

• Society: History: By Region: Africa  (60)
• Society: History: By Region: Africa: Early Empires  (22)
• Society: Religion and Spirituality: Islam: History: Expansion: Africa  (12)

African Literary Heritage : The Timbuktu Manuscripts Project - Information about a project to preserve collections of manuscripts - includes a listing of events and information about partners.

The Islamic Legacy of Timbuktu - In a city that embodies remoteness, scholarship flourished alongside trade for centuries in the Middle Ages; an account of the history of this cultural and religious center.

Timbuktu Educational Foundation - Information on the early African scholars at the Timbuktu Universities of Mali.

Timbuktu, Mali - The history of Timbuktu city, from its founding, through its golden age, to the present.

US Library of Congress - Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu - Online exhibition presents manuscripts from Timbuktu, covering the 16th to the 18th centuries.

US Library of Congress - Global Gateway: Islamic Manuscripts from Mali Collection - Features 22 manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha, both in Timbuktu, Mali.