KEY QUESTIONS
How important was Timbuktu to the Songhay Empire?
CONTENT
·Centres of learning
·Role of lawyers and clerics in Shari’a
·The economy
·Jihad
METHODOLOGY
Groups do one of the following:-
1. Documentary on the history and importance of Timbuktu
2. Documentary on the criminal justice system and its use of Islamic principles, such as Shar’ia and the extent to which Songhay was an Islamic society
RESOURCES
Online:
E-Book: pp.13 – 15
Timbuktu:-
• Lost Libraries of Timbuktu
• Timbuktu Heritage website
• Islamic manuscripts from Mali
• Tombouctou Manuscripts Project
• Essay on the significance of Timbuktu Authors: Abdi O. Shuriye and Dauda Sh. Ibrahim
• Extract from Saad: Social History of Timbuktu [Google Books]
• Extract from John Hunwick: Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire
• The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu (Hunwick) [YOUTUBE Video]
• The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu [YOUTUBE Video]
• Singleton: Books and Libraries in Medieval Timbuktu [JSTOR]
• Gomez: Timbuktu Under Imperial Songhay [JSTOR]
Islam:-
• Islam Religion website
• Nairaland Forum
• Kaba: The Pen, The Sword and the Crown [JSTOR]
• Hunwick: Secular Power and Religious Authority [JSTOR]
Book:
Oliver and Atmore: The African Middle Ages pp.7-8
Saad: Social History of Timbuktu
HOMEWORK
None
Songhai (Songhay) Empire