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Mansa Musa's Baghdad Connection: The Lost Embassy of 1324
Trade routes, diplomacy, and theological debate: this episode explores Mansa Musa's little-known embassy to the Ilkhanate court in Baghdad. In 1324, as the Mali emperor made his famous hajj, he dispatched a delegation to Sultan Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate. Drawing on the Persian chronicle Tarikh-e Wassaf and Mamluk sources, we piece together the mission's purpose: securing alliances, exchanging gifts, and positioning Mali as a global Islamic power. What did the Ilkhanate know of West Africa? Why did Musa seek ties with a Mongol state? And what does…
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