With the Name of the Gracious and Compassionate Creator of the Heavens and the Earth SCRUTINIZING THE QUR'AN APPENDIX A List of Scholars in Medieval Muslim Civilization (700-1700) (continued)
	From A History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century (Doubleday & Company, 1966), by Basil Davidson (with F.K. Buah and the advice of J.F. Ade Ajayi) and other sources
	Ahmad Baba, of Timbuktu (1556-1627).  Legal scholar.  President of the University of Sankore.  Author of over forty books, including a biographical dictionary of Muslim scholars in Western Africa. Mahmoud Kati, of Timbuktu (1468-1593; 125 years).  Historian.  Author of Tarikh al-Fattash, a history of West Africa, covering the period up to 1665 (completed by his sons and grandsons). Abdur-Rahman as-Sa`di, of Timbuktu (1596-1656).  Historian.  Author of Tarikh as-Sudan, a history of West Africa to 1656.
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