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 "id": "person/mansa-musa",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "mansa-musa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "منسا موسى",
  "en": "Mansa Musa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أشهر ملوك مالي وأعظمهم، ملك نحو ربع قرن وحج بيت الله سنة 724هـ في موكب جاوزت وصائفه اثني عشر ألفاً لابسات أقبية الديباج والحرير اليماني، فكثر الكلام عن بذله وسعة ملكه حتى اشتهرت مملكة مالي في المغرب ومصر والمشرق، وتبادل الهدايا مع السلطان المريني أبي الحسن فكان من جملة ما بعث إليه الزرافة التي تحدث بها أهل المغرب دهراً.",
  "en": "The most famous and greatest of Mali's kings, who reigned about a quarter of a century and made the hajj in 724 AH in a procession of over twelve thousand attendants clad in brocade and Yemeni silk, his largesse and the breadth of his realm becoming proverbial across the Maghreb, Egypt and the East; he exchanged gifts with the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan, among them the giraffe that the Maghreb talked about for an age."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/mongol-post-mongol"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1337.001375798271,
  "latest": 1338.00071185579
 },
 "display": {
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1337~",
   "hijri": "0737~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "بلغ ابن خلدون أنه توفي بعد خمس وعشرين سنة من ملكه؛ سنة الوفاة محتملة بين ٧٣٧ و٧٣٩هـ؛ التحويل مشتق.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "ruler"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1337~",
   "hijri": "0737~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "بلغ ابن خلدون أنه توفي بعد خمس وعشرين سنة من ملكه؛ سنة الوفاة محتملة بين ٧٣٧ و٧٣٩هـ؛ التحويل مشتق.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ابن خلدون، العبر — باب ملوك السودان، ص1656-1657 (المجلد السادس، طبعة هيليوبوليس)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "model": "swe-2-high",
   "run": "lib-ibar-maghreb-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); extracted from Ibn Khaldun al-Ibar via Apple Vision OCR"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "منسا موسى من ملوك [[polity/mali-empire|مملكة مالي]]، وهو من أشهرهم عند ابن خلدون. ملك نحو ربع قرن، وخلف [[person/mari-jata|ماري جاطة]] في الملك. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}\n\nحج سنة 724هـ في موكب جاوزت وصائفه اثني عشر ألفاً، لابسات الديباج والحرير اليماني. وذاع بعد ذلك خبر بذله وسعة ملكه في المغرب ومصر والمشرق. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}\n\nوتبادل الهدايا مع السلطان المريني أبي الحسن، وكان في ما بعث إليه زرافة تحدث بها أهل المغرب دهراً. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}\n\nيذكر ابن خلدون أنه توفي بعد خمس وعشرين سنة من ملكه. وسنة الوفاة محتملة بين 737 و739هـ، وتحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mansa-musa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Mansa Musa, one of the kings of the [[polity/mali-empire|Mali empire]], the most famous of them according to Ibn Khaldun. He ruled for about a quarter of a century and was succeeded by [[person/mari-jata|Mari Jata]]. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The pilgrimage",
     "markdown": "He made the pilgrimage in 724 AH with a procession whose attendants numbered more than twelve thousand, clothed in brocade and Yemeni silk. The news of his generosity and the breadth of his realm in the Maghrib, Egypt and the East spread after that. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}\n\nHe exchanged gifts with the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan, and among what he sent was a giraffe, which the people of the Maghrib talked about for a long time. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death",
     "markdown": "Ibn Khaldun says that he died twenty-five years after he became king. The year of death is probably between 737 and 739 AH, and needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mansa-musa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [
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  "person/al-abili-muhammad-ibn-ibrahim",
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  "person/al-isnawi-abd-al-rahim",
  "person/al-shaykhi-ali-ibn-muhammad",
  "person/al-tilimsani-al-sharif-muhammad-ibn-ahmad",
  "person/faraj-ibn-qasim-ibn-lubb",
  "person/ibn-al-ahmar-ismail-ibn-yusuf",
  "person/ibn-al-jazari-muhammad-ibn-ibrahim",
  "person/ibn-bakr-muhammad-ibn-yahya",
  "person/ibn-balban-ala-al-din-ali",
  "person/ibn-battuta-muhammad"
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 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "polity/mali-empire",
   "type": "ruler_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mari-jata",
   "type": "successor_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mansa-sulayman",
   "type": "predecessor_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/mansa-musa-hajj-724",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
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  "polity/mali-empire",
  "person/mansa-sulayman",
  "person/mari-jata",
  "polity/ghana-empire",
  "event/mansa-musa-hajj-724"
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}