Timbuktu is often thought of as a far-off region with little significance in the world. Historically, however, this ancient city
played an important role in the spread of Islam. Watch the following video and read this article about Timbuktu. Write one or two paragraphs explaining the connection between Timbuktu and the spread of Islam.
As early as the 11th century, Timbuktu was a center of scholarship and the exchange of ideas. Students and scholars came from all over the world to study Islam and other philosophical subjects at universities, where the teachings of Islam were collected and produced in many thousands of manuscripts. Because Timbuktu also served as a crossroads for the exchange of goods, Islamic teachings were shared with travelers and traders, who took their new knowledge of the religion with them to their homelands throughout Europe and Asia. Serving as the center of Islamic scholarship, Timbuktu contributed to the spread of Islam throughout Africa from the 13th century to the 16th century. Timbuktu remains home to three notable mosques and one the world’s most ancient collections of Islamic manuscripts.
As early as the 11th century, Timbuktu was a center of scholarship and the exchange of ideas. Students and scholars came from all over the world to study Islam and other philosophical subjects at universities, where the teachings of Islam were collected and produced in many thousands of manuscripts. Because Timbuktu also served as a crossroads for the exchange of goods, Islamic teachings were shared with travelers and traders, who took their new knowledge of the religion with them to their homelands throughout Europe and Asia. Serving as the center of Islamic scholarship, Timbuktu contributed to the spread of Islam throughout Africa from the 13th century to the 16th century. Timbuktu remains home to three notable mosques and one the world’s most ancient collections of Islamic manuscripts.
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Shamus Khan is a renowned sociologist with research interests on inequality and elites. He comes from an economically privileged immigrant family and attended St. Paul's school in Concord, New hampshire, where he graduated in 1996. Since he had a comfortable background and studied at that same institution, he was already familiar with the setting he would encounter during his reasearch in St. Paul's, which is stated in his book "Privilege
: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School".
