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1324 - Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage to Mecca

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.
Aired: Nov 22, 2020 Genre: Documentary War & PoliticsCasts: Patrick BoucheronCreated By: Patrick Boucheron Denis van WaerebekeDuration: 27m Rating: 0 Country: France, United States of America Production: Les Films d'Ici, ARTE, Histoire TV, TV5 Monde