Most incredible monuments featured on the Ancient Architects channel are usually made of stone, but Djinguereber Mosque in ...

Alyssa Banta Islamic moderates continue to dominate religious thinking in Timbuktu (the city's mosque, dating from c. 1325, is a UNESCO World Heritage site). Efforts by Saudi Wahhabi proselytizers ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1988 under criteria (ii), (iv) and (v) due to its outstanding universal value as an African intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th ...

I found Haidara, one of Timbuktu's preeminent historians, in the blinding mid-morning glare of his family's stone courtyard, not far from the Sankore Mosque. He wanted to show me what he said was ...

Father Columba Stewart, a Benedictine monk from St Joseph's Abbey, Minnesota, has travelled to Timbuktu with a team of experts to try and persuade the Imams of the City's three great Mosques to ...

Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and ...

In April 2021, the Government of Mali and UNESCO each received a symbolic euro from the International Criminal Court (ICC) as reparation for the damage inflicted on the people of Mali and the ...

Policemen of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) patrol in front of the Great Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, December 8, 2021. [AFP] The U.N. mission in Mali ended a decade of ...