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Mansa Musa's Lost Ambassador to Tlemcen
In 1325, Mansa Musa sent a diplomatic mission to the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abdallah in Tlemcen. This episode pieces together the scant evidence of that embassy — its gifts, its political context, and what it reveals about Mali's place in the medieval Islamic world. We examine the Marinid-Mamluk rivalry, the trans-Saharan gift economy, and the one surviving manuscript that hints at this exchange. Lucas and Luna also discuss the role of the dyula merchant networks in facilitating diplomacy, and what the Tlemcen mission says about Mansa Musa's broader strategy of…
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