The life of Shaykh Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti

Evidence

"The visit to the Ahmed Baba Institute was the highlight of the president’s trip and he was so overwhelmed by the manuscript heritage that he pledged to assist the Malians in their conservation efforts."

Remarks

The paper discusses the manuscript collections in Timbuktu as a vital source of social history (p. 185, 186). Specific mention is made of the Ahmed Baba Institute and the Mamma Haidara Library, which house thousands of juristic rulings and theological treatises like the al-Minna manuscript (p. 185, 193). The document displayed in folio image (p. 192) serves as the primary material sample for this context.