{"id":772,"date":"2012-04-17T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=772"},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:31:06","slug":"petition-to-spare-librariesmanuscripts-of-timbuktu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Petition to spare libraries\/manuscripts of Timbuktu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-779\" title=\"wara.stretched2\" src=\"http:\/\/scolma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wara.stretched21-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scolma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wara.stretched21-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scolma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wara.stretched21.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The situation in Mali,\u00a0 is increasingly volatile. The conflict has spread to Timbuktu, home of thousands of manuscripts documenting the rich heritage of West Africa through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarly community is concerned for the safety of this cultural and intellectual heritage housed in the many libraries and private collections in Timbuktu. Its loss would be very detrimental to the development of African historiography.<\/p>\n<p>Our West African colleagues, Drs. Habib Sy and Ibrahima Lo prepared a petition, urging the parties to the conflict to be mindful of the value of the heritage in these manuscripts and to spare them. You can\u00a0 find a copy of this petition on the WARA ( West African Research Association) website\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wara\">www.bu.edu\/wara<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The situation in Mali,\u00a0 is increasingly volatile. The conflict has spread to Timbuktu, home of thousands of manuscripts documenting the rich heritage of West Africa through the ages. The scholarly community is concerned for the safety of this cultural and intellectual heritage housed in the many libraries and private collections in Timbuktu. Its loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}