Editing Mansa Musa (section)

==Name and titles==

Mansa Musa's personal name was Musa ({{langx|ar|موسى|Mūsá}}), the name of [[Moses in Islam]].{{sfn|McKissack|McKissack|1994|p=56}} ''[[Mansa (title)|Mansa]]'', 'ruler'<ref>{{harvnb|Gomez|2018|p=87}}</ref> or 'king'<ref>{{harvnb|MacBrair|1873|p=40}}</ref> in [[Manding languages|Mandé]], was the title of the ruler of the Mali Empire. 

In oral tradition and the ''[[Timbuktu Chronicles]]'', Musa is further known as Kanku Musa.<ref>{{harvnb|Bell|1972|p=230}}</ref>{{efn|The name is transcribed in the ''Tarikh al-Sudan'' as Kankan ({{langx|ar|كنكن|Kankan}}), which Cissoko concluded was a representation of the Mandinka woman's name Kanku{{sfn|Cissoko|1969}}}} In Mandé tradition, it was common for one's name to be prefixed by his mother's name, so the name Kanku Musa means "Musa, son of Kanku", although it is unclear whether the genealogy implied is literal.{{sfn|Gomez|2018|p=109}} Al-Yafii gave Musa's name as Musa ibn Abi Bakr ibn Abi al-Aswad ({{langx|ar|موسى بن أبي بكر بن أبي الأسود|Mūsā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī al-Aswad}}),{{sfn|Collet|2019|p=115–116}} and ibn Hajar gave Musa's name as Musa ibn Abi Bakr Salim al-Takruri ({{langx|ar|موسى بن أبي بكر سالم التكروري|Mūsā ibn Abī Bakr Salim al-Takruri}}).{{sfn|Levtzion|Hopkins|2000|p=358}}

Musa is often given the title [[Hajji]] in oral tradition because he made [[hajj]].{{sfn|Niane|1959}} In the [[Songhai language]], rulers of Mali such as Musa were known as the Mali-koi, ''koi'' being a title that conveyed authority over a region: in other words, the "ruler of Mali".<ref>{{harvnb|Gomez|2018|pp=109,129}}</ref>