| Intro | Mauritanian writer |
| Is | Philologist |
| From | Mauritania |
| Type | Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Death |
Cairo |
Ahmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti (1872–1913) is one of Mauritania’s most famous writers. He is the author of the geographical, literary and historical compendium Al-Wasit fi tarájim udaba al-Shinqit, ed. Fuad Sayyid, Cairo 1958. The survey is the only major Arabic-language work about Mauritania published by a Mauritanian author.