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Mali

مالي

Sahel state on the land of the old Mali empire.

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Region
West Africa & Sahel
Identifiers
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Visited by
Abu Ishaq al-Sahili
Home of
Adama Traoré· Frédéric Kanouté
Birthplace of
Hamahullah bin Muhammad bin Umar· Mamadou Lamine Drame· Salif Keita· Salih Bilali
Under the rule of
Mansa Musa· Mansa Sulayman· Mari Jata (Sundiata Keita)

People and things also explored

Mansa Musa· Mali Empire· Mecca· Abu Ishaq al-Sahili· Mansa Sulayman· Mari Jata (Sundiata Keita)· Djinguereber mosque built at Timbuktu· Mansa Musa takes the throne of Mali

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Mali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Mansa Musa

Mansa Musa was king of Mali; the Encyclopaedia of Islam gives his reign as 712 to 738 AH, 1312 to 1337, at the peak of Mali's prosperity. He made the pilgrimage in 1324 with a vast entourage that passed through Timbuktu and Cairo and deeply impressed the Egyptians, and returned with the Andalusian architect Abu Ishaq al-Sahili and four sharifs of Quraysh. He built mosques, sent scholars to Fes and exchanged embassies with the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan, and oral tradition in the Sudan remembers him in the Fajigi legend.