Over an eighteen month period, beginning in October 2006, four trips to Mali were made for this Islamic manuscript digitization project. The project was a collaboration between Aluka, SAVAMA-ONG, and Northwestern University's Advanced Media Production Studio. The field recording of the call to prayer, available on these pages, was made at four in the morning from the roof of the hotel we stayed at in Timbuktu. These pages are meant to document and convey both the work, and the experiences associated with this extraordinary work.