Pros And Cons Librarian Of Timbuktu

The BadAss Librarians of Timbuktu Book Review “The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu” by Joshua Hammer is based on a true story, and contains an inner circle of scholars who thrived to keep Islamic literature and work from the 15th, 16th, and 17th century safe from the Al Qaeda terror group. In 2012, Al Qaeda invaded Timbuktu in Mali, and threatened to destroy the literature of the ancient city of Timbuktu. The goal of these librarians and scholars was to move the pieces of literature, and manuscripts to safety. These librarians had to move these pieces of work over 400 miles in hostile land facing dangers at all turns. Yet these brave smugglers had to face several forms of conflicts on their journey being both Al Qaeda, and government cities

After combining with Tuareg, they began to try and take over Timbuktu. The only problem was they weren't just trying. They were succeeding. They proceeded to actually take over the government and began to make their own laws. They were making women wear veils, men were being forced to grow beards, and they also even changed all their radio station to verses from the Quran. Another crazy thing they began doing was enforcing rules along the lines of if people were to wear their pants too short or even have their phones ringtone were not a part of the Western culture, they could be lashed or even worse. I find this crazy due to the fact that Timbuktu was such a calm and preserved area in Mali and they just got taken over by Al-Qaeda who began to enforce these crazy rules which completely ruined their culture. This prevented them from living the lifestyle they have always known and loved while at the same time being restricted from their religious beliefs they have always followed. The craziest part was when the librarians actually took the manuscripts that they have been hiding and loaded them into trucks and mules and brought them to Bamako. This was such a risky thing to do but this didn’t prevent them from protecting what they believed in and loved and they would have done anything to keep these

It would be a cool thing to learn about if I was a little younger but I would not be able to focus on it as well as I am to right now. With all the different names you have to know, to all that action that is occurring in different locations, it's really hard to focus if you don’t have a slight general knowledge about stuff like Al-Qaeda or terrorism that has happened in the past. However, the concept behind this book was extremely interesting. I haven't read any books based on terrorism or conquering another country and completely changing their culture which I probably should have before this. I’ve always loved keeping up with the topic of terrorism and whenever it happens I usually always watch the news to learn more about it. The thing is, in this novel, you are able to learn so much more about the behind the scenes stuff that the news never shows us and just even more in depth details that aren't exposed. To conclude, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that is trying to learn about the history of terrorism and more behind the scenes details while at the same time I would suggest this to an older audience because the violence and detail of the book could possibly not be suitable for the