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In 1324, a caravan of 60,000 people crossed the Sahara carrying over 18 tons of gold, enough to devalue gold in Cairo for a decade. That was my hajj: not just pilgrimage, but calibrated statecraft. I didn’t build Timbuktu’s Sankoré Mosque to impress scholars, I commissioned its curriculum, set salaries for jurists and astronomers, and tied mosque endowments to granary yields so religious learning never starved when drought struck. My treasury didn’t hoard gold; it minted standardized dinars, enforced price ceilings on salt and grain in Gao and Walata, and required all royal merchants to file quarterly ledgers in Arabic and Soninke. When Berber traders complained about customs duties at Taghaza, I let them appeal, not to me, but to a council of elders and qadis whose rulings were carved into the city gate. Power wasn’t in the crown alone, it lived in the ledger, the prayer mat, and the shared weight of a salt block.
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- “How did you stabilize gold’s value after your hajj disrupted Cairo’s markets?”
- “What criteria did you use to appoint judges in provincial qadi courts?”
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- “How did you verify merchant ledgers without paper currency or printing?”