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Mansa Sulayman

منسا سليمان

c. 1360 CE · c. 761 AH

Mansa Sulayman ibn Abi Bakr, brother of Mansa Musa and his successor after Mansa Magha; he ruled Mali for twenty-four years, consolidating the empire his brother had raised.

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Roles
Ruler
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
West Africa & Sahel
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi · Abu al-Khayr al-'Ala'i al-Muqaddisi · Abu Tahir al-Khujandi of Medina · Ahmadi Taj al-Din Ibrahim ibn Khidr · Al-Abbi, Muhammad ibn Khalfa

Overview

Mansa Sulayman ibn Abi Bakr, king of Mali. He is the brother of Mansa Musa, and succeeded him after his son Mansa Maghan. 1

His rule

He ruled for twenty-four years, and the material Ibn Khaldun quotes describes his rule as firm, and under him the bounds of the kingdom widened. 1

The year of his death is approximately 761 AH, reckoned from the sequence Ibn Khaldun gives, and needs an additional source.

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Ruler of
Mali Empire
Successor of
Mansa Musa

People and things also explored

Mari Jata (Sundiata Keita)· Mansa Musa· Mali Empire· Djinguereber mosque built at Timbuktu· Mansa Musa takes the throne of Mali· The hajj of Mansa Musa· Ghana Empire

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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