1324 - Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage to Mecca

Dates That Made History • Season 2 • Episode 16

About this episode

The Arab chronicles of the fourteenth century bristle with a rumor: from the farthest lands to the west of the known world, across the Sahara desert, a black emperor and his court crossed the lands of Islam on a pilgrimage to Mecca, staying in what was at the time the capital of the Islamic world, Cairo.