Musa, Sultan of Mali, active 1324

found: Wor. bk. enc.:v. 13, p. 166 (Mansa Musa (? -1337?; ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa from 1312 to about 1337; grandson of Sundiata Keita)

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Musa, Mansa; emperor; born around 1312 [erroneous], place unknown; no details available about his life prior to his famous pilgrimage to Mecca via Cairo (1324-1325); the mutually beneficial relations between Mali and Morocco continued with Mansa's successors until late in the fourteenth century; died 1337 possibly in Timbuktu)

found: Dictionary of African Biography, 2012, viewed online April 10, 2024:volume 4, pages 341-342 (Musa, Mansa (d. 1337), ninth emperor (mansa) of the West African kingdom of Mali and its monarch in its golden era (1312-1337); grandson of Sunjata Keita's brother Manding Bori; during his pilgrimage to Mecca, his caravan spent nearly three months in Cairo; he came into power when his predecessor, Mansa Muhammad, set sail with a fleet to determine the extent of the Atlantic Ocean in 1312 and never returned; Mansa Musa brought descendants of the Prophet Muhammad ('shurafa') and the poet and architect Abu Ishaq al-Sahili from Andalusia back with him from Mecca; encouraged Islamic scholarship by sending students to study in Fes)