Therefore, calligraphy quickly spread throughout the world of Islam and developed by artists in different regions. In this line, there are numerous quotations from the Holy Prophet and the Imams about the crucial importance of beautiful transcribing of Qur’an. It is safe to claim that the emergence of calligraphy as one of the most important art in the Islamic era had a direct relationship with the outmost importance of Qur’an for Muslims. The seminar, workshops, and exhibition this catalogue accompanies, are part of our ongoing attempts to look at the Timbuktu written tradition now it is literally the writing that we address. However, we have not yet fully addressed the question of calligraphy, although we have been aware that the styles of handwriting in the Timbuktu libraries are unique West African expressions of the Islamic calligraphic tradition. We have collected digital samples of diverse handwriting styles and marvelled at these unique calligraphies. Our project has been very much concerned with the diverse content of the manuscripts, the circulation of scholars and ideas, the economy of the manuscript book, and other aspects of the ‘work of scholarship’ in Timbuktu. Local scholars and their students recorded their scholarship – original works and copies – in manuscripts, i.e. This city was a great centre of learning and was famous in West Africa and far beyond over a period of more than three hundred years, from the 15th to the 19th centuries. ![]() Since 2002, when the idea of the formation of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project first emerged, we have been involved with various aspects of the study of the rich manuscript tradition in the historic city of Timbuktu, Mali.
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