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==Historical sources== Much of what is known about Musa comes from Arabic sources written after his hajj, especially the writings of [[Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari|Al-Umari]] and [[Ibn Khaldun]]. While in Cairo during his [[hajj]], Musa befriended officials such as Ibn Amir Hajib, who learned about him and his country from him and later passed that knowledge to historians such as Al-Umari.{{sfn|Al-Umari|loc=Chapter 10}} Additional information comes from two 17th-century manuscripts written in [[Timbuktu]], the ''[[Tarikh al-fattash|Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar]]''{{efn|The ''Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar'' is a historiographical name for an untitled manuscript by Ibn al-Mukhtar. This document is also known as the ''Tarikh al-Fattash'', which Nobili and Mathee have argued is properly the title of a 19th-century document that used Ibn al-Mukhtar's text as a source.{{sfn|Nobili|Mathee|2015}}}} and the ''[[Tarikh al-Sudan]]''.{{sfn|Gomez|2018|pp=92β93}} Oral tradition, as performed by the ''jeliw'' ({{singular}} ''jeli''), also known as [[griots]], includes relatively little information about Musa relative to some other parts of the history of Mali, with his predecessor conquerors receiving more prominence.{{sfnm|Gomez|2018|1pp=92β93|Niane|1984|2pp=147β152}}
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