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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the city of Timbuktu was part of the Songhai Empire.
- Timbuktu was a center of trade and scholarship in the Sahara desert.
- The city was known for its hundreds of thousands of written manuscripts on both secular and religious subjects.
- The manuscripts survive today in dozens of private libraries across the city.
- The Pearls Leading to Accepted Guidance is one of these manuscripts.
- Between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the city of Timbuktu was part of the Songhai Empire.
- Timbuktu was a center of trade and scholarship in the Sahara desert.
- The city was known for its hundreds of thousands of written manuscripts on both secular and religious subjects.
- The manuscripts survive today in dozens of private libraries across the city.
- The Pearls Leading to Accepted Guidance is one of these manuscripts.