Abstract
AbstractThe Arabic manuscripts of Timbuktu have received considerable publicity during the past 25 years, yet their contents remain largely unknown. Since 2012, an inventory of nearly 350,000 Timbuktu manuscripts in private libraries has been underway, and the contents of those libraries are now accessible in the West African Arabic Manuscript Database (WAAMD). This analysis examines 31 of the 35 libraries and in addition to reporting on their contents, notes challenges in accessing incompletely identified works, and compares the manuscripts with other West African collections.
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Résumé: Les manuscrits arabes de Tombouctou ont fait l’objet d’une publicité considérable au cours des 25 dernières années, mais leur contenu reste largement méconnu
3 “The Road to Timbuktu” in Wonders of the African World (1999), where we learn about the “rich literary tradition [of Timbuktu]” was followed in 2009 by three documentaries by different production crews: The Ancient Astronomers of Timbuktu, The Manuscripts of Timbuktu, and The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu
In 2018, the SAVAMA-DCI inventories were made available to the University of California Berkeley West African Arabic Manuscript Database (WAAMD) and all those records are available at the WAAMD site
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Résumé: Les manuscrits arabes de Tombouctou ont fait l’objet d’une publicité considérable au cours des 25 dernières années, mais leur contenu reste largement méconnu. The SAVAMA-DCI Libraries and Comparative Data from the West African Arabic Manuscript Database
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