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Writers & Thinkers

Ahmed Baba

1556 – 1627

West Africa (Timbuktu, Songhai) and Morocco (Marrakesh)

Timbuktu jurist and writer, deported to Marrakesh after Morocco's 1591 conquest. He wrote a biographical dictionary of Maliki scholars and a fatwa on the enslavement of Africans before returning home.

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Manuscripts held at the Ahmed Baba Centre (Ahmed Baba Institute) in Timbuktu, Mali
Credit: UNESCO Bureau of Mali, © UNESCO. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

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Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Aḥmad Bābā" (Reference)
  2. Martha Frederiks, "Aḥmad Bābā al-Tinbuktī," in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 11 (Brill, 2017), via Utrecht University Repository (Scholarly)
  3. Tombouctou Manuscripts Project, University of Cape Town, "Timbuktu's History" (Scholarly)

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