Mahmud Kati

– 1552 or 1593) was an African Muslim Songhai scholar.

He is traditionally held to be the author of the West African chronicle Tarikh al-fattash, though the authorship is contested.

[1] Kati grew up in Kurmina but lived most of his adult life in Timbuktu.

His tomb is the second largest in Timbuktu, after that of Mohammed Bagayogo, and is a site of pilgrimage.

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