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Mansa Musa's Hajj Through the Eyes of Cairo
When Mansa Musa passed through Cairo in 1324 on his way to Mecca, he didn't just spend gold — he set off a chain of events that reshaped the Mamluk economy, created diplomatic tensions, and left behind a vivid eyewitness account from the historian Al-Umari. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Musa's seven-week stay in Cairo: the audiences with Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, the lavish gift-giving that devalued gold for a decade, the negotiations over slave girls and horses, and the Egyptian chroniclers who recorded it all. They also examine what Musa's Cairo visit reveals about…
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