Editing Mansa Musa (section)

==Death==
[[File:The Mali Empire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|The Mali Empire at the time of Musa's death]]

The date of Mansa Musa's death is uncertain. Using the reign lengths reported by [[Ibn Khaldun]] to calculate back from the death of Mansa Suleyman in 1360, Musa would have died in 1332.{{sfn|Levtzion|1963|p=349}} However, Ibn Khaldun also reports that Musa sent an envoy to congratulate [[Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman|Abu al-Hasan Ali]] for his conquest of [[Tlemcen]], which took place in May 1337, but by the time Abu al-Hasan sent an envoy in response, Musa had died and Suleyman was on the throne, suggesting Musa died in 1337.{{sfn|Levtzion|1963|p=350}} In contrast, al-Umari, writing twelve years after Musa's hajj, in approximately 1337,{{sfn|Levtzion|Hopkins|2000|pp=252,413}} claimed that Musa returned to Mali intending to abdicate and return to live in Mecca but died before he could do so,{{sfn|Levtzion|Hopkins|2000|p=268}} suggesting he died even earlier than 1332.{{sfn|Bell|1972|p=224}} It is possible that it was actually Musa's son Maghan who congratulated Abu al-Hasan, or Maghan who received Abu al-Hasan's envoy after Musa's death.{{sfn|Bell|1972|p=225–226}} The latter possibility is corroborated by Ibn Khaldun calling Suleyman Musa's son in that passage, suggesting he may have confused Musa's brother Suleyman with Musa's son Maghan.{{sfn|Bell|1972|p=225}} Alternatively, it is possible that the four-year reign Ibn Khaldun credits Maghan with actually referred to his ruling Mali while Musa was away on the hajj, and he only reigned briefly in his own right.{{sfn|Bell|1972|p=226–227}} [[Nehemia Levtzion]] regarded 1337 as the most likely date,{{sfn|Levtzion|1963|p=350}} which has been accepted by other scholars.{{sfn|Sapong|2016|p=2}}{{sfn|Gomez|2018|p=145}}