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This artwork depicts Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire, with his caravan going from Cairo to Mecca on his Hajj, which is a Muslim pilgrimage to the…

This item contextualizes the term and item "Umma", a community of believers, and draws inspiration from the article by Scott Reese: "Islam in Africa /…

While the Bedouin poets showed the emotional vulnerability of men in some cases, the treatment of enslaved women, or jawaris, displays an err of…