The Hidden Treasures Of Timbuktu
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The Hidden Treasures Of Timbuktu
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Author : John O Hunwick
language : en
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Release Date : 2008-10-28
The Hidden Treasures Of Timbuktu written by John O Hunwick and has been published by Thames and Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-28 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The extraordinary manuscripts of Timbuktu: invaluable historical documents, objects of tremendous beauty, and a testament to a great center of learning and civilization. For centuries, trading caravans made epic journeys across the Saharan sands to reach the markets of the legendary city of Timbuktu, where they traded salt, gold, slaves, textiles—and books. By the mid-fifteenth century, Timbuktu had become a major center of Islamic literary culture and scholarship. The city's libraries were repositories of all the world's learning, housing not only works by Arab and Islamic writers but also volumes from the classical Greek and Roman worlds and studies by contemporary scholars. The astonishing manuscripts of Timbuktu form the lavish visual heart of this book. Beautifully graphic, occasionally decorated, these exquisite artifacts reveal great craftsmanship as well as learning. All were written in the Arabic script, but not all are in Arabic, for they also feature a range of local African languages. Aside from scholarly works, the surviving manuscripts include a wealth of correspondence between rulers, advisers, and merchants on subjects as various as taxation, commerce, marriage, divorce, adoption, breastfeeding, and prostitution, providing a vivid insight into the ordinary life and values of the day.
The Bad Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu
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Author : Joshua Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-04-19
The Bad Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu written by Joshua Hammer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu The Quest For This Storied City And The Race To Save Its Treasures
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Author : Charlie English
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2017-05-04
The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu The Quest For This Storied City And The Race To Save Its Treasures written by Charlie English and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with History categories.
‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Books of the Year ‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity... [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS
Timbuctoo
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Author : Tahir Shah
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2012-06-22
Timbuctoo written by Tahir Shah and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-22 with Fiction categories.
For centuries, Europe's great explorers were sent out to find Timbuctoo - a city supposedly built from pure gold. Most of them never returned alive. At the height of the Timbuctoo Mania, 200 years ago, an illiterate American sailor was found on the streets of snowbound London, claiming to have been taken there as a white slave.
The Storied City
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Author : Charlie English
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-05-02
The Storied City written by Charlie English and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with History categories.
“Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name “Timbuktu” long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for “discovery” tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands—according to some, hundreds of thousands—of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda–linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable.
Beyond Timbuktu
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Author : Ousmane Oumar Kane
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-07
Beyond Timbuktu written by Ousmane Oumar Kane and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with History categories.
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Africa S Hidden Histories
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Author : Karin Barber
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006
Africa S Hidden Histories written by Karin Barber and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
'Africa's Hidden Histories' takes a private and personal look into the world of everyday Africans, as they put pen to paper. As it explores the innovative, intense, and sociable interest in reading and writing, the text opens new avenues for understanding a rich and hidden history of Africa's creative expression.
From Dust To Digital
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Author : Maja Kominko
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2015-02-16
From Dust To Digital written by Maja Kominko and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-16 with Art categories.
Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.
Timbuktu Script Scholarship
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Department of Arts and Culture
Release Date : 2008
Timbuktu Script Scholarship written by and has been published by Department of Arts and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Baba, Ahmad ibn Ahmad categories.
Empires Of Medieval West Africa
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Author : David C. Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Empires Of Medieval West Africa written by David C. Conrad and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Africa categories.
Explores empires of medieval west Africa.