Timbuktu is a trove of medieval treasures. ... The city, today part of present-day Mali and known as the “city of 333 saints” for the Sufi imams, sheiks and scholars buried there, ...

Timbuktu was a center of Islamic scholarship under several African empires, ... This characterization had roots in reality and in fact continues to the present in much reduced form.

They wanted to see if the past could help the present." ... Ironically, thirteen is the holy number of Timbuktu, and while 2013 has brought liberation from (most) foreign invaders, ...

The post ICC sentences Timbuktu war criminal to 10 years appeared first on HESPRESS ... violence, oppression, humiliation, and remains present in the minds of victims in a deep-seated trauma ...

From Timbuktu, with love. ... In the margins, this copy contains the notes of several scholars from Tekrour (the present-day Senegal and Lake Chad). Tuhfat al-Ahbab wa Nukhbat al-A’jab ...

Al Hassan, who had pleaded not guilty to the charges at the start of his case in 2020, was present in court clad in all white with a traditional West African robe and headdress. He showed no ...

In 2012, the al-Qaeda–linked jihadist group Ansar Eddine swept through Timbuktu, taking control of the Malian city. As part of the group’s imposition of sharia law over the residents, it ...

In medieval times, Timbuktu, in present-day Mali, was an important intellectual center. Known for its great mosques and trove of manuscripts, the city has world-heritage status.

ICC judges had convicted Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 47, in June for crimes including torture when he was ...