Ahmad Baba al Massufi

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Ahmad Baba al Massufi

Ahmad Baba redirects here. For the Algerian musician see Ahmad Baba Rachid
Ahmad Baba Rachid

Rachid Baba Ahmed was an Algerian musical producer involved in a regional musical genre called ra?. He was credited with the international popularization of the genre in 1976 through the new pop ra? with a delicate, sophisticated blend of electronic instrumentation....
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Ahmad Baba al-Massufi al-Tinbukti, full name Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Takruri Al-Massufi al-Tinbukti (October 26, 1556 – 1627), (also known as Ahmed Baba Es Sudane or Ahmed Baba the black) was a medieval West African writer, scholar, and political provocateur in the area then known as the Western Sudan

Sudan (region)

The Sudan, from the Arabic language bil?d as-s?d?n or "land of the Black people" , is a geographic region stretching from West to Eastern Africa....
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Sudan (region)

The Sudan, from the Arabic language bil?d as-s?d?n or "land of the Black people" , is a geographic region stretching from West to Eastern Africa....
. Throughout his life, he wrote more than 40 books and is often noted as having been Timbuktu

Timbuktu

Timbuktu is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African nation of Mali. It was made prosperous by Mansa Musa, tenth mansa of the Mali Empire....
’s greatest scholar.

Ahmad Baba was the son of a noted scholar and teacher, Ahmad bin al-Hajj Ahmad bin Umar bin Muhammed Aqit. Born at Araouane

Araouane

Araouane or Arawan is a village in the Malian Sahara in eastern Mali, lying 270 km north of Timbuktu on the road to Taoudenni. It is a former oasis and is still a station on trans-Saharan trade routes....
, he moved to Timbuktu

Timbuktu

Timbuktu is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African nation of Mali. It was made prosperous by Mansa Musa, tenth mansa of the Mali Empire....
at an early age, to study with his father and with a scholar known as Mohammed Bagayogo

Mohammed Bagayogo

Mohammed Bagayogo Es Sudane Al Wangari Al Timbukti was an eminent scholar from Timbuktu, Mali. He was the Sheik and professor of highly esteemed scholar, Ahmed Baba and teacher at the Sankore Madrasah, one of three philosophical schools in Mali during West Africa's golden age ; the other two were Sidi Yahya University and Jingaray Ber univer...
(sometimes spelled Baghayu'u); there are no other records of his activity until 1594, when he was deported to Morocco, where he remained until 1608 over accusations of sedition. A fair amount of the work he was noted for was written while he was in Morocco, including his biography of Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Maghili, a scholar and jurist responsible for much of the traditional religious law of the area. The biography was translated by M.A. Cherbonneau in 1855, and became one of the principal texts for study of the legal history of the Western Sudan. Ahmad Baba's surviving works remain the best sources for the study of al-Maghili and the generation that succeeded him. Ahmad Baba was considered the Mujjadid (reviver of religion) of the century.

The only public library in Timbuktu, the Ahmed Baba Institute (which stores over 18 000 manuscripts) is named in his honour.