{"id":10506,"date":"2013-06-12T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10506"},"modified":"2013-06-13T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T14:27:19","slug":"timbuktus-manuscripts-need-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/timbuktus-manuscripts-need-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbuktu’s Manuscripts Need Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Arab Literature (in English)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Crowdfunding for Timbuktu\u2019s\u00a0Manuscripts<\/h3>\n

BY\u00a0MLYNXQUALEY<\/a>\u00a0ON\u00a01<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as sexy as saving ancient manuscripts from Islamists, but these manuscrips need rescue from humidity and bad storage, according to\u00a0Dr. Abdel Kader Ha\u00efdara, of the SAVAMA-DCI (Protection and Exploitation of Manuscripts for the Defense of Islamic Culture) project, which works to protect manuscripts in Timbuktu and beyond:<\/em>\"?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????\"<\/a>The project aims to save over 300,000 manuscripts. According to Dr. St\u00e9phanie Diakit\u00e9, the manuscripts of Timbuktu are from the 13th through the 19th centuries, and are a corpus of religious, scientific, philosophical and artistic works, and include \u201ctales, poems and music treaties.\u201dMost were written in Arabic, by Africans, although some originated in Andalusia or the Mashreq.<\/p>\n

Diakite told\u00a0Star Africa<\/em><\/a>: \u201cThe purpose of the crowdfunding effort is to ensure the preservation of the physical integrity of the manuscripts. Each one of them needs to be put in special boxes equipped with a system against humidity. Rain[y] season will begin soon in Mali, the preservation action is thus of the utmost urgency. The crowdfunding campaign that has been launched on the 21st of May, 2013, and is due to end on the 20th of June[.]\u201c<\/p>\n

See more:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Star Africa:\u00a0YOU can save the Timbuktu manuscripts: interview<\/a><\/p>\n

IndieGoGo:\u00a0Timbuktu Libraries in Exile<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also: On June 13, \u00a0Arab Literature (in English<\/a>)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>published an update & questioning on & of this post, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Arab Literature (in English): \u00a0Crowdfunding for Timbuktu\u2019s\u00a0Manuscripts BY\u00a0MLYNXQUALEY\u00a0ON\u00a0JUNE 12, 2013 \u2022\u00a0(\u00a01\u00a0) It\u2019s not as sexy as saving ancient manuscripts from Islamists, but these manuscrips need rescue from humidity and bad storage, according to\u00a0Dr....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10506"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10516,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506\/revisions\/10516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}