Abu Ishaq al-Sahili

Abu Ishaq al-Sahili, also called al-Tuwayjin (c. 1290–1346), was an Andalusi poet and legal scholar from Granada who became the most celebrated foreign scholar at the court of Mansa Musa of Mali. He left al-Andalus around 1321 and met Musa during the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, then returned with him to Mali.

He directed construction of an audience chamber in the capital, paid for in gold, and settled in Timbuktu. He died there on 15 October 1346; Ibn Battuta saw his tomb in the city in 1353.