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Quotes Tagged "timbuktu"

We are a city that has had Islam for one thousand years. We had the greatest teachers and universities. And now these Bedouins, these illiterates, these ignoramuses, tell us how to wear our pants, and how to say our prayers, and how our wives should dress, as if they were the ones who invented the way?
— Joshua Hammer The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Tags: timbuktu, religion, prayer, mali, literacy, islam, education, africa
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