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Mansa Musa's Hajj Entourage: The Human Side of History's Richest Pilgrimage
Lucas and Luna peel back the pageantry of Mansa Musa's legendary 1324 Hajj to examine the thousands of ordinary people who made it happen: the porters, cooks, guards, sailors, and slaves who carried the emperor's gold and his household across 4,000 miles of Sahel and Sahara. Drawing on al-Umari's Masalik al-Absar and fragments from the Tarikh al-Sudan, they piece together the logistics of feeding, watering, and protecting a mobile city of perhaps 60,000 souls. Who were the farba overseers who managed the camel herds? How did the women of the imperial household, including…
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