Post by anansi on Sept 16, 2024 17:48:33 GMT -5
Kings Monologue just dropped this wonderful vid on Timbucktu
Include part of an article by African History Extra below as a teaser for others do a deeper dive.
A Sudanese proverb declared, "Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, silver from the land of white men, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom come from Timbuktu." This city played a crucial role in transmitting knowledge from African intellectuals to the larger Islamic world, in a manner not reflected in other educational institutions of the time.
a 16th century copy of Ibn Sina’s canon of medicine originally written in 1025. Ibn Sina’s work appears frequently in the medical manuscripts of west Africa (as it does in the rest of the Muslim world as well as in Europe as Avicenna), He is one of several physicians cited by atleast two of the four west African scholars in my essay.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note-on-africas-scientific
Include part of an article by African History Extra below as a teaser for others do a deeper dive.
A Sudanese proverb declared, "Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, silver from the land of white men, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom come from Timbuktu." This city played a crucial role in transmitting knowledge from African intellectuals to the larger Islamic world, in a manner not reflected in other educational institutions of the time.
a 16th century copy of Ibn Sina’s canon of medicine originally written in 1025. Ibn Sina’s work appears frequently in the medical manuscripts of west Africa (as it does in the rest of the Muslim world as well as in Europe as Avicenna), He is one of several physicians cited by atleast two of the four west African scholars in my essay.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note-on-africas-scientific