Musa, Sultan of Mali, active 1324

LC control no.	n 96040990
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Musa, Sultan of Mali, active 1324 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Mansa Musa, Sultan of Mali, active 1324 Musa, Sultan of Mali, fl. 1324 Musa, Mansa, active 1324 Musa, Mansa, Sultan of Mali, active 1324
Beginning date	1312 1324
Associated country	Mali
Associated place	Morocco Egypt Saudi Arabia
Death date	1337
Place of death	Tombouctou (Mali)
Profession or occupation	Mali (Empire)--Kings and rulers Emperors
Found in	My little African king, 1996: CIP p. 2, etc. (Mansa Musa; Musa) LC data base, 04/26/96 (hdg.: Musa, Sultan of Mali, fl. 1324) Wor. bk. enc.: v. 13, p. 166 (Mansa Musa (? -1337?; ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa from 1312 to about 1337; grandson of Sundiata Keita) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Musa, Mansa; emperor; born around 1312 [erroneous], place unknown; no details available about his life prior to his famous pilgrimage to Mecca via Cairo (1324-1325); the mutually beneficial relations between Mali and Morocco continued with Mansa's successors until late in the fourteenth century; died 1337 possibly in Timbuktu) Dictionary of African Biography, 2012, viewed online April 10, 2024: volume 4, pages 341-342 (Musa, Mansa (d. 1337), ninth emperor (mansa) of the West African kingdom of Mali and its monarch in its golden era (1312-1337); grandson of Sunjata Keita's brother Manding Bori; during his pilgrimage to Mecca, his caravan spent nearly three months in Cairo; he came into power when his predecessor, Mansa Muhammad, set sail with a fleet to determine the extent of the Atlantic Ocean in 1312 and never returned; Mansa Musa brought descendants of the Prophet Muhammad ('shurafa') and the poet and architect Abu Ishaq al-Sahili from Andalusia back with him from Mecca; encouraged Islamic scholarship by sending students to study in Fes)