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Mansa Musa's Cairo Meltdown
In 1324, Mansa Musa stopped in Cairo on his way to Mecca and accidentally crashed the city's economy. This episode unpacks exactly what happened — how the Malian emperor's gold donations sent the value of Egyptian gold plummeting, how the Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad scrambled to stabilize things, and what Cairo's own historians al-Umari and al-Maqrizi recorded about the visit. We also look at the local fallout: the goldsmiths of Khan al-Khalili, the merchants who tried to exploit the imperial caravan, and the long shadow Musa's spending cast on Cairo's financial…
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