Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since ...

For Muslims around the world, it remains the spiritual focal point — the direction toward which they pray five times a day.

The manuscripts paint a portrait of Timbuktu as the Cambridge or Oxford of its day, where from the 1300s to the late 1500s, students came from as far away as the Arabian Peninsula to learn at the ...

Reached by Skype in Timbuktu in August, Dr. Maïga said that he was separately restoring the 61,000 manuscripts that remained at the center, also under the Unesco umbrella. That includes manuscripts ...

From here to Timbuktu – Alison Healy on a byword for the most remote and distant place imaginable Thanks to globalisation, Timbuktu is not so remote any more Expand ...

Though the legend that he built a new mosque every Friday during his reign may not be true, Mansa Musa certainly built mosques in cities like Gao and Timbuktu. To build the famous Djinguereber Mosque, ...

It is just before 15:00 on Saturday in Timbuktu and the intense desert heat has reached its peak. Five years ago, Islamist occupiers were driven out of the historical town - but violent extremists ...

Home to treasured ancient manuscripts, architecturally significant mosques, and the expansive Sahara, Timbuktu offers a cultural journey that is both unique and profound.

ISLAMABAD and LONDON -- A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing and wounding hundreds of worshippers, officials said.

Roughly one-quarter of the world is Muslim. With facades dressed in mosaics, glowing marble, crowning domes, and spiraling towers, mosques are awe-strikingly stunning from the outside. In off ...

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an organization for which I worked from 2005 to 2014, restored it, together with the Great Mosque in Mopti and the Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu, from 2006 to 2010.