| LC control no. | n 88242660 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bābā, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, 1556-1627 |
| Variant(s) | Tunbuktī, Aḥmad, 1556-1627 Aḥmad Bābā, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, 1556-1627 بابا، أحمد بابا، أحمد بن أحمد بابا، أحمد بن أحمد، 1556-1627 Baba Soudani, Ahmed, 1556-1627 Soudani, Ahmed Baba, 1556-1627 Baba, Ahmed, de Tombouctou, 1556-1627 Massufi, Ahmad Baba, 1556-1627 |
| Birth date | 1556-10-26 |
| Death date | 1627-04-22 |
| Place of death | Tombouctou (Mali) |
| Profession or occupation | Scholars Authors Teachers Philosophers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Nayl al-ibtihāj bi-taṭrīz al-Dībāj, 1989: t.p. (Aḥmad al-Tunbuktī, 963/1555 or 56-1036/1626 or 27) p. 11, etc. (Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad Bābā ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣinhājī al-Māsanī al-Takrūrī al-Tunbuktī, b. in Tunbuktū 963 H/1556 M; d. 6 Shaʻbān 1036 H/1627 M or 1032 H/1924) Brockelmann,S.II, p. 715 (Abuʼl-ʻAbbās A.b.A.A. Bābā; b. Duʼl-H. 963/1556; d. ŠaʻBān 1032/1624 or Šaʻbān 1032/1624 or ŠaʻBān 1036/1627) Le trésor des manuscrits de Timbuktu, 2017: page 4 of cover (Ahmed Baba Soudani; renowned black scholar and owner of a private library of more than 1600 books.) p. 109 (Ahmed BABA de Tombouctou) Wikipedia, May 2, 2018 (Ahmad Baba al Massufi. Ahmad Baba al-Massufi al-Timbukti, full name Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Takruri Al-Massufi al-Timbukti (October 26, 1556 - April 22, 1627), was a medieval Sanhaja Berber writer, scholar, and political provocateur in the area then known as the Western Sudan. Throughout his life, he wrote more than 40 books and is often noted as having been Timbuktu's greatest scholar. b. Araouane, Mali; d. Timbuktu, Mali; occupation: Teacher, Philosopher, Arabic grammarian) |
| Associated language | ber ara |
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