{"id":8458,"date":"2024-02-15T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:13:07","slug":"djingareyber-mosque-of-timbuktu-expression-and-innovation-at-the-saharan-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/topics\/2024\/djingareyber-mosque-of-timbuktu-expression-and-innovation-at-the-saharan-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Djingareyber Mosque of Timbuktu: Expression and Innovation at the Saharan Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-mivideo wp-block-embed-mivideo center-it\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Khamseen Video] Ashley Miller - Djingareyber Mosque of Timbuktu: Expression and Innovation at the Saharan Crossroads\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/1038472\/sp\/103847200\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/46145191\/partner_id\/1038472?iframeembed=true&#038;playerId=kaltura_player&#038;entry_id=1_bx50dgus&#038;flashvars[streamerType]=auto&#038;flashvars[localizationCode]=en_US&#038;flashvars[sideBarContainer.plugin]=true&#038;flashvars[sideBarContainer.position]=left&#038;flashvars[sideBarContainer.clickToClose]=true&#038;flashvars[chapters.plugin]=true&#038;flashvars[chapters.layout]=vertical&#038;flashvars[chapters.thumbnailRotator]=false&#038;flashvars[streamSelector.plugin]=true&#038;flashvars[EmbedPlayer.SpinnerTarget]=videoHolder&#038;flashvars[dualScreen.plugin]=true&#038;flashvars[hotspots.plugin]=1&#038;flashvars[Kaltura.addCrossoriginToIframe]=true&#038;wid=1_n3itjei4\" width=\"708\" height=\"502\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" frameborder=\"0\" mozAllowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8362dd87a05a6db2193e3222232a3935\"><a href=\"https:\/\/umich.academia.edu\/AshleyMiller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashley Miller<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-21cdf9a2c880ef1da7571918f85db180 wp-block-paragraph\">This presentation examines the history and meaning of Djingareyber Mosque, the Great Mosque of Timbuktu in Mali. Constructed beginning in the fourteenth century under the patronage of Mansa Musa (ruler of the Mali empire from 1312 to 1337), the mosque was the product of an empire and its elite population\u2019s relationship to an increasingly global economy and political field in which the Islamic faith was shared across world regions. The mosque\u2019s construction and visual details express connections to Islamic architectures in North Africa and the Levant, as well as a deep resonance with local expressive practices and worldviews, Muslim and otherwise. Continually renovated and restored until today, Djingareyber attests to the architectural and cultural innovation entailed in expressing meaning at the proverbial \u201ccrossroads\u201d: of a vast commercial network like the medieval trans-Saharan trade, multiple faiths and cultural ideas, global transformations provoked by climate change, and, more recently, the radicalization of Islamic thought and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Worksheet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">A worksheet for this video is available <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2024\/10\/Khamseen-Worksheet-Djingareyber-Mosque-of-Timbuktu-Expression-by-Ashley-Miller.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Also visit the Khamseen Worksheets page <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/resources\/worksheets\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-facf603fed44f9b4be3220c5bd704c8e wp-block-paragraph\">Aradeon, Susan. \u201cAl-Sahili: The Historians\u2019 Myth of Architectural Technology Transfer from North Africa,\u201d <em>Journal des Africanistes<\/em> 59\/1-2 (1989): 99\u2013131. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/jafr_0399-0346_1989_num_59_1_2279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-642\" style=\"width: 16px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2020\/09\/external-link-alt.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b93686b15d40cdef2b782198359d50fb wp-block-paragraph\">Apotsos, Michelle.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Architecture-Islam-and-Identity-in-West-Africa-Lessons-from-Larabanga\/Apotsos\/p\/book\/9781138192461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <em>Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga<\/em><\/a>. New York: Routledge, 2016. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-642\" style=\"width: 16px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2020\/09\/external-link-alt.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1b0af981c57db0f2c747a11e4f401c4c wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/zamaniproject.org\/site-mali-timbuktu-djingareyber-mosque.html#header5-a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Djingareyber Mosque: A Site of the Golden Age of Islam in Africa<\/a>\u201d (3D model, plans, and images of site). Zamani Project Website. Accessed September 21, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/zamaniproject.org\/site-mali-timbuktu-djingareyber-mosque.html#header5-a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-642\" style=\"width: 16px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2020\/09\/external-link-alt.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d01c62196b1882bdeb0c5168b1ecda5f wp-block-paragraph\">Paoletti, Giulia. \u201cDjingareyber Mosque of Timbuktu.\u201d In <em>Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara<\/em>,<em> <\/em>ed. Alisa LaGamma,<em> <\/em>138\u2013139. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/metpublications\/Sahel_Art_and_Empires_on_the_Shores_of_the_Sahara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-642\" style=\"width: 16px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2020\/09\/external-link-alt.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e3bfda722bf8b8f2851eb084ed3ef0fb wp-block-paragraph\">Poissonnier, Bertrand. \u201cThe Great Mosque of Timbuktu: Seven Centuries of Earthen Architecture.\u201d In <em>Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives<\/em>, ed. St\u00e9phane Pradines, 22\u201336. Leiden: Brill, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/display\/book\/edcoll\/9789004356337\/BP000004.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-642\" style=\"width: 16px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2020\/09\/external-link-alt.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62a1608347f9fbbbf81446822e5f025d wp-block-paragraph\">Prussin, Labelle. \u201cSub-Saharan West Africa.\u201d In <em>The Mosque: History, Architectural Development &amp; Regional Diversity<\/em>, ed. Martin Frishman, Hasan-Uddin Khan, and Mohammad Al-Asad, 180\u2013193. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/title\/31758698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-642\" style=\"width: 16px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2020\/09\/external-link-alt.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Citation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley Miller, \u201cDjingareyber Mosque of Timbuktu: Expression and Innovation at the Saharan Crossroads,\u201d <em>Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online<\/em>, published 15 February 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2024\/02\/a-miller-headshot_300px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8459\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:225px;height:225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2024\/02\/a-miller-headshot_300px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2024\/02\/a-miller-headshot_300px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/khamseen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1139\/2024\/02\/a-miller-headshot_300px-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7f15281ec72718f3fa406960ef9b7557 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/umich.academia.edu\/AshleyMiller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Ashley Miller<\/strong><\/a> is Assistant Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). She specializes in the material and visual cultures of 19<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; and 20th-century northwest Africa, with a broader interest in issues of heritage and collective memory, the history of museums in Africa, Muslim expressive cultures of Africa, and the politics and representation of identity in colonial and postcolonial societies. \u00a0Currently, she is at work on a major exhibition entitled <em>Ghana 1957<\/em>, which explores Ghana\u2019s position as a locus for transregional, pan-African artistic exchange in the decades following African independence from colonial rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Miller Synopsis: This presentation examines the history and meaning of Djingareyber Mosque, the Great Mosque of Timbuktu in Mali. 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