Aḥmad Lamīn al-Shinqīṭī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Aḥmad (b.) Lamīn al-Shinqīṭī (1280-1331/1863-1913), whose real name was Sidaḥmad Wuld al-Amīn, was the first Mauritanian author to be published in print. He was born in Mederdra, in the south of present-day Mauritania. A member of the scholarly and pious tribe (zawāyā , or zwāya) of the Īdaw ʿAlī, he received a religious and intellectual education appropriate to his social status, including Arabic language and literature and Islamic sciences. Like most native speakers of the Western Saharan Ḥassāniyya dialect ofArabic, he had an ear for