Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti

Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti was a celebrated scholar and jurist of Timbuktu in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. He belonged to the city's learned elite, which provided judges and teachers under the Songhai Empire. After the Moroccan conquest he was deported to Marrakesh, and he later returned to Timbuktu, leaving many works on law and biography.