Bless this man, his father and the city of Timbuktu: Pictured here is Abdel Kader Haidara , one of Timbuktu’s leading manuscripts experts and son of a deceased renown local scholar, Mama Haïdara. In front of Haïdara in a glass case is a Qur’an with on the lower part of the image a note indicating that several kings of Morocco owned it. The writing is typically Moroccan, 12th century.

Bless this man, his father and the city of Timbuktu:

Pictured here is Abdel Kader Haidara , one of Timbuktu’s leading manuscripts experts and son of a deceased renown local scholar, Mama Haïdara. In front of Haïdara in a glass case is a Qur’an with on the lower part of the image a note indicating that several kings of Morocco owned it. The writing is typically Moroccan, 12th century.

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