Timbuktu
تمبكتو
A city in Mali on the edge of the desert; it was a centre of Islamic learning in the Middle Ages and holds the Sankore and Djinguereber mosques.
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- West Africa & Sahel
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islam.museum contributors. “Timbuktu”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/timbuktu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.