The most influential man of his time, Mansa Musa had heavily shaped Islamic West Africa Mansa Musa's pilgrimage brought an increase of Islamic education,Arabic scholars and brought Mali into the world's eye. Mansa Musa pilgrimage while customary of an emperor ,impacted West Africa so greatly by put Mali in the world’s line of sight. In 1307 Musa rose to power after the demise of his pediesour Abu-Bakr II (“Mansa Musa’ Blackpast.org). In 1324 Mansa Musa began his four thousand mile pilgrimage to the Mecca, being the first West African Muslim ruler to make the journey( History of Islam). It is said that along with an entourage consisting of a five hundred slaves and eighty camels each carrying well over three hundred pounds of gold, it was …show more content…
said that every slave carried a four pound gold staff(History of Islam). It was this enormous scale of Mansa Musa’s caravan and Musa’s generous distribution of gold that made such an impact on Ciro, it took a year for its gold to revalue. Twelve years after Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage a historian named Al-Umari visited Cairo and found that the nearly one million citizens still praising Mansa Musa. When Mansa Musa returned from Mecca he flooded Mali with Islamic books and scholars and architects in hopes to spread Islamic religion throughout the kingdom.
In both Cairo and Kairouan Mansa Musa purchased a multitude of Islamic texts and brought them back to Mali. In hopes to extend the Islamic religion to the rural citizens Mansa Musa built great universities in Walata, Gao and Timbuktu. Mansa Musa furthered his Islamic reform by building mosques with the help of Ishaq El Teudjin . Teudjin was an Islamic architect who had come back with Mansa Musa from his pilgrimage . Teugjin introduced a number of advanced building techniques and is responsible for building two very famous mosques : the Goa mosque and the still standing Djinqueerker in Timbuktu. Alongside the constructions and islamic reform Mansa Musa began solidifying ties in North Africa and Egypt, causing many heavily islamic populated countries to look at Mali. With all of the Islamic reforms many Islamic leaders took noticed increasing commerce , trade and scholars in Mali. It wasn’t only islamic countries that took notice of Mali. Spain, Italy and Germany all began to take notice of the growing Islamic Mali. For about two centuries after Mansa Mali’s pilgrimage cartographers from Spain, Italy and Germany traveled to Mali producing maps that depicted Mansa Mali and his pilgrimage,. Mansa Mali had succeeded in bringing global attention to Mali by turning it into the mecca of Islamic culture and
religion. Mansa Mali died in 1337, and after a twenty-five year reign passed the throne onto his son, Maghan I . Leaving behind not only a throne but an empire that caught the globe’s attention by turning a empire into the pinnacle of Islamic religion becoming the most influential man of his time.
In the 1300s Mansa Musa, king of Mali took his holy pilgrimage to the city of Mecca as a devout muslim, traveling through scorching deserts and bustling cities, although there might be other reasons he took his religious Hajj. The pilgrimage of Mansa Musa traveled all across Northern Africa and Arabia, stopping in cities along the way where Mansa Musa gave out gold to all he saw. The journey from the Empire of Mali to the city of Mecca was not only a faithful religious journey to the holy city, but also to create a name for Mali as the wealthy and powerful empire it was.
Moroccan traveler, Ibn Battuta, is well-known for being one of the greatest travelers of his time. Battuta’s descriptive account of his travels to East and West Africa in the fourteenth century provides important insight into African Islamic life at that point in time. Although Battuta and the peoples in black Africa shared the same religion, he comes to realize that sharing a religion is not enough to completely relate to a different group of people. The story of Ibn Battuta in Black Africa illustrates the difficulties he faced in relating to these peoples due to the non-traditional role of women, different religious customs, and frequent misinterpretation of situations.
He decided to improve the status of his land on his arrival from a pilgrimage from Mecca in 1324. Furthermore, he transformed his trading city of Timbuktu to a center of learning and religion and built a mass, which set a new style of architecture in West Africa. “Caravans of Gold” underlines the importance of Timbuktu because it concentrated on African scholarship, politics, teaching theology, and Islamic law. Timbuktu was a significant place in Africa during this time because it became a market right after and made a profit for the region. Likewise, it was a religious, cultural, and profitable center whose people traveled north across the Sahara through Morocco and Algeria to other parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia. According to The History of Africa, “Because of his devotion to Islam, Mansa Musa strengthened Islam and promoted education, trade, and commerce in Mali” (Asante, 2014, pg. 135). It was a successful center for the trans-Saharan gold and salt trade and grew as the center of Islam. This statement launches the truth that Timbuktu supported Islamic values and knowledge because it was a city most well-known for the education of important scholars whose backgrounds were of Islam. Asante supports the fact that Mansa Musa was effective in reforming the city of Timbuktu and the trade in that area. Asante also states that “Musa did not forget the control of the gold and salt; it was fundamental for the
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