SankoreUniversity or Sankore or The University of Sankore or Sankore Masjid is one of three ancient centers of learning located in Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa.
The three Masjids (common word for mosque in the region) of Sankore, Djinguereber Mosque and Sidi Yahya compose the famous University of Timbuktu.
As the center of an Islamic scholarly community, the University was a Madrassa, very different in organization from the universities of medieval Europe.
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctorate) in a variety of subjects.
The first European medieval university was the University of Magnaura in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), founded in 849 by the regent Bardas of emperor Michael III, followed by the University of Salerno (9th century), University of Bologna (1088) in Bologna, Italy, and the University of Paris (c.
Many of the medieval universities in Western Europe were born under the aegis of the Catholic Church, usually as cathedral schools or by papal bull as Studia Generali.
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