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WORLD HISTORY
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Timbuktu
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Morocco
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Detailed explanation-1: -The University of Timbuktu is a collective term for the teaching associated with three mosques in the city of Timbuktu in what is now Mali: the mosques of Sankore, Djinguereber, and Sidi Yahya. It was an organized scholastic community that endured for many centuries during the medieval period.
Detailed explanation-2: -Timbuktu’s main library, officially called the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Islamic Studies and Research, is a treasure house containing more than 20, 000 manuscripts covering centuries of Mali’s history.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was capable of housing 25, 000 students and had one of the largest libraries in the world with between 400, 000 to 700, 000 manuscripts. The University had four degree levels. The primary degree level at Quran schools introduced students to the holy Quran, Arabic language and basics in science.