HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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DJenne
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Timbuktu
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Cairo
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Nigeria
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Detailed explanation-1: -Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, city in the western African country of Mali, historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a centre of Islamic culture (c. 1400–1600). It is located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 miles (13 km) north of the Niger River.
Detailed explanation-2: -Timbuktu (Timbuctoo) is a city in Mali, West Africa which was an important trade centre of the Mali Empire which flourished between the 13th and 15th centuries CE.
Detailed explanation-3: -Timbuktu was a center of Islamic scholarship under several African empires, home to a 25, 000-student university and other madrassas that served as wellsprings for the spread of Islam throughout Africa from the 13th to 16th centuries.