This is UNESCO's own World Heritage List entry for Timbuktu, Mali, the record establishing its 1988 inscription for its historic mosques, including Djinguereber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, and its centuries-old manuscript tradition. As the issuing body's own official record it is the correct source for the fact and grounds of that international heritage designation, including the criteria UNESCO cites and the year recognition was granted. Its limit is genre: a World Heritage List entry documents recognition and the stated criteria for it, not a scholarly history of Timbuktu's manuscript culture, its Islamic scholarship, or the threats the site has faced since inscription, so a claim about that deeper history needs a historical or manuscript studies source alongside this designation record.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee's own inscription record for the site, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record. NotesUNESCO's own World Heritage List entry for Timbuktu; an official heritage-designation record, not a scholarly historical study.
Citation
AuthorUNESCO World Heritage Committee
PublisherUNESCO
URLhttps://whc.unesco.org/en/list/119
Source Typegovernment
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Mali directly: "Heritage List entry for Timbuktu, Mali, the record establishing its 1988 inscription for its historic mosques, including Djinguereber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, and its centuries-old manuscript..."
This source names Timbuktu directly: "own World Heritage List entry for Timbuktu, Mali, the record establishing its 1988 inscription for its historic mosques, including Djinguereber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, and its centuries-old..."
Derived From
This record's own Title names the UNESCO World Heritage List as the register it is entered under, and its Author names the World Heritage Centre, the World Heritage Committee, or UNESCO itself rather than an individual scholar; one entry inside that same continuously maintained official register, not a witness independent of it.
Claims Backed By This Source (28 claims)
This source backs 28 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Sites, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 connected.
- Historical Figures, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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