Aḥmad Bābā al-Tinbuktī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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de Moraes Farias, Paulo Fernando
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Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Bābā b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥājj Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad Aqīt al-Tinbuktī (d. 1036/1627) was the pre-eminent figure in the heyday of Timbuktu scholarship. In addition to al-Tinbuktī, various other nisba s were also attached to his name: al-Ṣanhājī, al-Māsinī, al-Masūfī, al-Mālikī, al-Sūdānī, and al-Takrūrī. He was born on 21 Dhū l-Ḥijja 963/26 October 1556. His birthplace is sometimes given as Araouane (Arawān, 250 kilometres north of Timbuktu), but no pre-nineteenth-century