Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu (Reklaw Education Lecture Series Book 1) by Robin Walker

Author:Robin Walker [Walker, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Reklaw Education Ltd
Published: 2011-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

He continued teaching in Timbuktu until his death on 22 April 1627 where he wrote a number of fatwa texts.

He directly influenced three important scholars: Abdurrahman Al-Sadi, the great historian who wrote the History of the Sudan, Ahmed Ibn al-Qadi, the Moroccan historian and poet, and Abu al-Abbas al-Maqqari, the mufti and imam of the Qarawiyyin mosque in Fez.

Historians of our times have heaped praise on Baba. One good example is the African American historian, Professor John Henrik Clarke, who wrote: ‘Ahmed Baba was the last Chancellor of the University of Sankore. He was one of the greatest African scholars of the late sixteenth century. His life is a brilliant example of the range and depth of West African intellectual activity before the colonial era. Ahmed Baba was the author of more than forty books; nearly every one of these books had a different theme.’

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