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Mansa Musa's Andalusian Architect Abu Ishaq al-Sahili
In 1324, Mansa Musa returned from his hajj to Mecca with an unlikely companion: Abu Ishaq al-Sahili, a poet and architect from Granada. This episode explores al-Sahili's journey from the Nasrid emirate to the heart of the Mali Empire, his role in shaping the region's iconic mud-brick mosques, and the lasting controversy over which buildings he truly designed. Drawing on the Tarikh al-Sudan, Ibn Battuta's travels, and modern archaeological debates, we trace the career of a man who fused Andalusian and Mande aesthetics into a new Sahelian style. We also consider the fading memory…
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