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Mansa Musa's Pilgrims: The People Who Traveled with the King
In episode 46 of our Mansa Musa series, we step away from the emperor himself and focus on the thousands of pilgrims who accompanied him on his 1324 Hajj. Who were these people? Soldiers, scholars, slaves, craftsmen, and wives—including Mansa Musa's senior wife, Inari Konte. Drawing on the accounts of Al-Umari and Ibn Battuta, we explore the logistics of moving a caravan of 60,000 people across the Sahara: how they were fed, housed, and governed. We discuss the role of the farba (provincial governors) in organizing supplies, the construction of temporary mosques at each stop, and the…
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