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Timbuktu manuscripts

مخطوطات تمبكتو

A corpus of hundreds of thousands of Islamic, Arabic and African manuscripts in Timbuktu; a great civilizational archive in Mali.

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Libraries, paper and the bookScripture and its sciences

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A collection of hundreds of thousands of Islamic, Arabic and African manuscripts in Timbuktu; a large cultural archive in Mali. 1

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

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islam.museum contributors. “Timbuktu manuscripts”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/mukhtutat-timbuktu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.