The Seven Wonders of the Muslim World
Mali
One of 1,000 participants at a ‘summit of the poor’ in Mali, West Africa, in 2007, organised to counter the G8 summit of richest nations.
Nine out of 10 Malians are Muslims, and the ancient city of Timbuktu, on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, was a very important centre of Islamic learning. The Great Mosque in the city of Djenne is the tallest mud-built mosque in the world.
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