Hammer Essay
While the book by Joshua Hammer narrates the events that have shaped Islamic culture the themes of religion, geography, and social hierarchy reveal differences and similarities between the fictional work and historical research. This essay argues how religion, geography, and how social hierarchy will have all contributed in the trade routes within the Sahara regions. The trading system gives great power to an area. The abuse of power in and around Mali, by specific groups will have substantial impact on the society’s inclusive culture.
Timbuktu was located on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. It had flourished of Islamic scholarship and values for centuries. Due to the centralizing location of Timbuktu it was the center …show more content…
31). Being that Timbuktu was the hub of ancient manuscripts and dominated book collecting for centuries, his whole life was dedicated to traveling to small villages and to major cities and preserve Islamic culture. When he succeeded, this same time hard-line extremists swept the region in from the north and seized the city in 2012. Haidara took on a different kind of preservation effort, and was forced to disperse, smuggle, and hide the manuscripts to safety out of the Ahmed Baba Institute archive. Access to different regions surrounding Timbuktu allowed Haidara to carry out the necessary tasks like shipping many scripts down the Nile River, burying papers under the sand, and sending off trunks of history on camels into the …show more content…
AQIM’s capture was final when the French troops forced them to leave the city of Timbuktu. This moment emerged liberty, independence, and choice for so many women and men living under the control of the enemy. Each gender was persecuted for different things: This made punishments unpredictable, inconsistent, and harsh. Because of Timbuktu’s police and military were too vulnerable, AQIM could carry out any attack on any one for doing the slightest action wrong: Not wearing a certain item, not having a specific length of hair, being accompanied with a male, etc. Inevitably, the women of Timbuktu were singled out for distinct persecution.
Societies create a cultural and social role for women and men. In ancient Egypt, the women would “[transcend] gender norms, acting or appearing like a man” (WTWA CP pg.62). Hatshepsut did this to be accepted into the position of a new women ruler. One of the only remains of her role of power is an inscription of her portrayed as a male pharaoh. The women of Timbuktu do the opposite of Hatshepsut. Instead of conforming to what is accepted and expected, they fight for their individuality and their right to express their woman hood through protest in the market places in the city
While the book by Joshua Hammer narrates the events that have shaped Islamic culture the themes of religion, geography, and social hierarchy reveal differences and similarities between the fictional work and historical research. This essay argues how religion, geography, and how social hierarchy will have all contributed in the trade routes within the Sahara regions. The trading system gives great power to an area. The abuse of power in and around Mali, by specific groups will have substantial impact on the society’s inclusive culture.
Timbuktu was located on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. It had flourished of Islamic scholarship and values for centuries. Due to the centralizing location of Timbuktu it was the center …show more content…
31). Being that Timbuktu was the hub of ancient manuscripts and dominated book collecting for centuries, his whole life was dedicated to traveling to small villages and to major cities and preserve Islamic culture. When he succeeded, this same time hard-line extremists swept the region in from the north and seized the city in 2012. Haidara took on a different kind of preservation effort, and was forced to disperse, smuggle, and hide the manuscripts to safety out of the Ahmed Baba Institute archive. Access to different regions surrounding Timbuktu allowed Haidara to carry out the necessary tasks like shipping many scripts down the Nile River, burying papers under the sand, and sending off trunks of history on camels into the …show more content…
AQIM’s capture was final when the French troops forced them to leave the city of Timbuktu. This moment emerged liberty, independence, and choice for so many women and men living under the control of the enemy. Each gender was persecuted for different things: This made punishments unpredictable, inconsistent, and harsh. Because of Timbuktu’s police and military were too vulnerable, AQIM could carry out any attack on any one for doing the slightest action wrong: Not wearing a certain item, not having a specific length of hair, being accompanied with a male, etc. Inevitably, the women of Timbuktu were singled out for distinct persecution.
Societies create a cultural and social role for women and men. In ancient Egypt, the women would “[transcend] gender norms, acting or appearing like a man” (WTWA CP pg.62). Hatshepsut did this to be accepted into the position of a new women ruler. One of the only remains of her role of power is an inscription of her portrayed as a male pharaoh. The women of Timbuktu do the opposite of Hatshepsut. Instead of conforming to what is accepted and expected, they fight for their individuality and their right to express their woman hood through protest in the market places in the city