Alyssa Banta Islamic moderates continue to dominate religious thinking in Timbuktu (the city's mosque, dating from c. 1325, is a UNESCO World Heritage site). Efforts by Saudi Wahhabi proselytizers ...

Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, recall Timbuktu's golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification, management ...

Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and ...

(CNN)-- Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident. Moulaye Sayah ...

Timbuktu became the heart of his empire ... the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore mosque into a university and filled it with astronomers, mathematicians and ...