Israel’s ongoing war of annihilation in Gaza has wiped out hospitals, schools, homes, water, and food, reducing the ...

Mansa Musa was the emperor of Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, during the 14th century ... who would build mosques and universities that made cities such as Timbuktu internationally ...

Muslim-Americans represent ethnicities from all over the world and attendees at mosques are often very ... Muslim missionaries and traders in the 14th century. Most Filipino Muslims live on ...

Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, is home to important 19th-century monuments, Port-au-Prince's pastel-coloured hillside houses and a beautiful coastline ...

Its legacy was enshrined in an ambitious building scheme, centred on Timbuktu after Musa annexed ... the triumph of Western historians. In the 14th century, nobody had more gold than Musa.

4. Timbuktu is home to three of western Africa's oldest mosques Three mosques- Djinguereber (Djingareyber), Sankore, and Sidi Yahia- were built in the 14th century. They are three of the oldest ...

Faith and studyBuilt with mud bricks by the great Mali emperor Mansa Musa, the 14th-century Djinguereber mosque is Timbuktu’s oldest standing building. Long revered as a place of learning ...

He was awed by Damascus, which he said "surpasses all other cities in beauty," and told of the magnificent Umayyad Mosque there ... of huge swaths of the 14th-century non-Western world.

In an absorbing and inspiring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mansa Musa appears on an image of the known world made in Majorca about a century ... like the Great Mosque of Jenne ...

The 14th-century ... was Timbuktu, which became an African El Dorado and people came from near and far to marvel at it’s gold-clad buildings and streets. Even by the 19th Century, 500 years ...