This paper discusses narratives of visitors to Timbuctoo (or Timbuktu), a city well noted in that part of the Muslim world as a learning center and the site of the Mosque of Sankore, a city visited by a number of Western travelers beginning in the late nineteenth century who wrote accounts of the region that were sometimes superficial and sometimes detailed, revealing aspects of the social and religious life of the people of the region and showing how different the region was as well as suggesting some links with other parts of the world, especially in terms of religious belief.
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