Timbuktu Saving the World's oldest University
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Uploaded by africanheritagevideo on Sep 3, 2009
http://africanlegends.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/timbuktu-the-worlds-first-and-... This documentary shows the effort undertaken by Ford Foundation to save archives from the world's first and oldest university in the great city of Timbuktu, the center of knowledge in the 12th century.
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I remember learning about Timbuktu, as a child, many years ago....
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University of al-Qarawiyyin (859) in Morocco, Africa, whose founder was a woman named Fatima.
African Muslims...
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...but it's a good documentary for show how enlightened West Africa was in pre-colonial times!!! ;)
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...or Nalanda University (427 to 1197 AD)!!! i don't know, you tell me!!!! ;)
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just curious, but i thought that the university of Bolgna (1088), or the University of Al-Karaouine , Egypt (859) were the first universities, lol!!! ;)
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Good video.
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Timbuktu university is believed to be built around 11th Century AD. How is it the oldest university in the world when Nalanda university in india was build around the 3rd century BC?
yakmanok 1 year ago
@yakmanok Thank you for pointing that out. The main difference is that no manuscript of Nalanda or Alexandria exist today. Timbuktu is the only one of these two ancient universities which was not burnt to the ground like Nalanda or Alexandria, and whose most manuscripts have not yet been translated.
africanheritagevideo 8 months ago