Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali by P. James Oliver

Author:P. James Oliver
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-08-26T07:00:00+00:00

While still in Gao, the Mansa toured the city. Its bustling trade and the great expanse of its lands delighted him, but when he saw the straw-roofed mud hut that served as the mosque for this great city, he was dismayed. Calling the Moor to him, he asked his friend to build a mosque whose magnificence would make it a suitable place in which to praise the never-ending glory of Allah.

The handsome mosque the Mansa commissioned the Moor to build in Gao introduced Mali and the rest of the Sudan to a new style of architecture, a style that became known as the Malian style of architecture. Built of sun-dried bricks, another advance introduced by the Mansa and the Moor, Gao’s tall and graceful mosque was greatly admired for hundreds of years.

After leaving Gao, the caravan followed the Niger River to Timbuktu, another large and important Songhai city that now belonged to Mali. The Mansa was thrilled with the city, its location, and its busy commercial center. Timbuktu was the most important of the northern port cities because, in addition to long caravans of camels and donkeys, hundreds upon hundreds of canoes carried goods into and out of Timbuktu.

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