{
 "id": "exhibit/path-west-africa",
 "class": "exhibit",
 "slug": "path-west-africa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الإسلام في غرب أفريقيا",
  "en": "Islam in West Africa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مسار في ساحل الذهب والعلم: غانا ومالي ومانسا موسى وتمبكتو — الإسلام يعبر الصحراء مع قوافل الملح.",
  "en": "A trail through the Sahel of gold and learning: Ghana, Mali, Mansa Musa and Timbuktu."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "trail",
  "audience": [
   "newcomer",
   "student"
  ],
  "duration_minutes": 30,
  "rooms": [
   {
    "title": {
     "ar": "غانا القديمة",
     "en": "Old Ghana"
    },
    "body": {
     "ar": "إمبراطورية الذهب الأولى قبل الإسلام ومعه: أوقادوست وكومبي صالح.",
     "en": "The first gold empire, before and alongside Islam."
    },
    "features": [
     "polity/ghana-empire"
    ]
   },
   {
    "title": {
     "ar": "مالي",
     "en": "Mali"
    },
    "body": {
     "ar": "سوندياتا يؤسس والإسلام دين البلاط والتجار.",
     "en": "Sundiata founds it; Islam the court's and merchants' faith."
    },
    "features": [
     "polity/mali-empire"
    ]
   },
   {
    "title": {
     "ar": "حج مانسا موسى",
     "en": "Musa's hajj"
    },
    "body": {
     "ar": "1324: قافلة الذهب التي غيّرت أسعار القاهرة.",
     "en": "1324: the gold caravan that moved Cairo's prices."
    },
    "features": [
     "person/mansa-musa"
    ]
   },
   {
    "title": {
     "ar": "تمبكتو",
     "en": "Timbuktu"
    },
    "body": {
     "ar": "عاصمة المخطوط: جامعات وسوق كتب على النيجر.",
     "en": "The manuscript capital: universities and a book market."
    },
    "features": [
     "place/timbuktu"
    ]
   },
   {
    "title": {
     "ar": "البلد اليوم",
     "en": "Today"
    },
    "body": {
     "ar": "أكثرية مسلمة من السنغال إلى نيجيريا.",
     "en": "Muslim majorities from Senegal to Nigeria."
    },
    "features": [
     "person/bilal-ibn-rabah"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "exhibit/path-islam-in-30-minutes"
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Devin-assembled trail from existing museum entities",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "model": "SWE-2 High",
   "run": "pathways-batch-4"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), pathways lane, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مسار في ساحل الذهب والعلم: غانا ومالي ومانسا موسى وتمبكتو — الإسلام يعبر الصحراء مع قوافل الملح."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "exhibit/path-west-africa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A path through the coast of gold and learning: Ghana, Mali, Mansa Musa and Timbuktu. Islam crosses the desert with the salt caravans."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "exhibit/path-west-africa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "سونے اور علم کے ساحل کا راستہ: غانا، مالی، مانسا موسیٰ اور ٹمبکٹو — اسلام نمک کے قافلوں کے ساتھ صحرا پار کرتا ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "exhibit/path-west-africa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}