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The Timbuktu Scholar Who Turned Down a Sultan
In 1559, the sultan of Morocco tried to poach one of Timbuktu's greatest minds. Ahmed Baba al-Timbukti refused. This episode follows the scholar's career from his studies at Sankore to his controversial fatwas, his years of exile in Marrakech, and his return home. We explore how his legal rulings shaped the Sahel's intellectual life, why he clashed with both Songhai rulers and Moroccan invaders, and what his story tells us about the reach of Islamic scholarship in West Africa. Lucas and Luna unpack the man behind the manuscripts, the world he navigated, and the legacy that…
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