The Fate of Timbuktu’s Andalusian Manuscripts - Islamic - Heritage - Ahram Online In 1467…Toledo is on fire. Ali bin Ziyad al-Quti participates in the rebellion that provokes confrontations between Muslims and Christians. The rebellion is crushed and the man is forced to leave. Instead of heading for Granada (the last Islamic kingdom of Andalus), he sets sail across the Strait of Gibraltar arriving in North Africa, with nothing in his bag other than some manuscripts. No-one could have predicted that these manuscripts would become the seeds for a flourishing cultural scene in West Africa. http://bit.ly/NlKbRe Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/50962/Heritage/Islamic/The-Fate-of-Timbuktu's-Andalusian-Manuscripts.aspx See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/NlKbRe+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
