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Songhai's Scholarly Ahmad Baba: The Sage of Timbuktu
In this episode of The Songhai Empire: Africa's Powerful Forgotten Kingdom, Lucas and Luna explore the life and legacy of Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti, the most celebrated scholar of the Songhai Empire. Born in 1556 in Arawan, Ahmad Baba rose to become the leading intellectual of Sankore madrasa in Timbuktu, writing over 40 works on law, theology, and history. His defiance of the Moroccan Saadian occupation after the Battle of Tondibi in 1591 led to his exile to Marrakesh, where he debated the legitimacy of the invasion with Moroccan jurists. We discuss his role in the trans-Saharan book…
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