{"id":3531,"date":"2013-02-03T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2014-08-05T14:49:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:49:33","slug":"dduane-dynamicafrica-these-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=3531","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3531 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=3532#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhfhi2koi71rqkjy0o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=3533#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhfhi2koi71rqkjy0o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=3534#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhfhi2koi71rqkjy0o3_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=3535#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhfhi2koi71rqkjy0o4_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=3536#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhfhi2koi71rqkjy0o5_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=3537#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhfhi2koi71rqkjy0o6_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=3538#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhfhi2koi71rqkjy0o7_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dduane.tumblr.com\/post\/41869651906\/dynamicafrica-these-priceless-manuscripts-are\">dduane<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dynamicafrica.tumblr.com\/post\/41853778378\/these-priceless-manuscripts-are-my-identity\">dynamicafrica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span>\u201cThese priceless manuscripts are my identity, they\u2019re my history. They are documents about Islam, history, geography, botany, poetry. They are close to my heart, and they belong to the whole world.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8211; Timbuktu\u00a0<\/span><span>Halle Ousmane Cisse<\/span><span>\u00a0mayor via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/01\/29\/170586823\/ancient-manuscripts-in-timbuktu-reduced-to-ashes\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The 2013 Destruction of the Ahmed Baba Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timbuktu_Manuscripts\">Timbuktu Manuscripts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since last spring, rebel fighters in Ansar Dine in Mali had seized the northern historical city of Timbuktu, imposing sharia law on the city\u2019s residents and destroying several historical and cultural sites &#8211; including the\u00a0<span>destruction of 300 Sufi saints\u2019 shrines while<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As joint French and Malian government troops advanced into Timbuktu to regain control of the city, in a final act of defiance, the rebels set fire to the newly-built South African-funded\u00a0<span>Ahmed Baba Institute, one of the many libraries that housed\u00a0<\/span><span>more than 20,000<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>invaluable\u00a0<\/span><span>scholarly manuscripts that\u00a0<\/span><span><\/span><span>ranged between the late 13th and the early 20th centuries which contained writings in Songhay, Tamasheq and Arabic on art, geography, science, medicine and calligraphy by the late<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Abbasid Caliphate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dynamicafrica.tumblr.com\/post\/41854799186\/when-malian-and-french-soldiers-rolled-into-town\"><span>Read this.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This destruction is heartbreaking. And criminal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dduane: dynamicafrica: \u201cThese priceless manuscripts are my identity, they\u2019re my history. They are documents about Islam, history, geography, botany, poetry. They are close to my heart, and they belong to the whole world.\u201d &#8211; Timbuktu\u00a0Halle Ousmane Cisse\u00a0mayor via NPR The 2013 Destruction of the Ahmed Baba Institute Timbuktu Manuscripts Since last spring, rebel fighters in <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=3531\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}