Trading gold and salt have proved to be the most profitable. Where did Mansa Musa wealth go? A mosque would be built in today's Mali on this territory after Musa completed his Hajj in today's Mali.

Mansa Musa was the legendary ruler of the ... In Timbuktu, al-Sahili is credited with the construction of the Djinguereber Mosque and the Sankore University, although some historians dispute ...

Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire ... It is said that he commissioned the construction of a mosque every Friday during his travels. Arab historian Shihab al-Din al-‘Umari, who visited ...

Mansa Musa's wealth was much greater than Augustus ... He also built the Great Mosque in Timbuctu, the oldest mosque south of the Sahara. Rudolph Ware, associate history professor at the ...

Under the leadership of Mansa Musa, 1312 - 1337 ... the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore mosque into a university and filled it with astronomers, mathematicians ...