Editing Mansa Musa (section)

==Lineage==

{{Lineage
|align=right|caption=Genealogy of the mansas of the Mali Empire up to Magha II ({{died-in|{{circa|1389}}}}), based on Levtzion's interpretation of [[Ibn Khaldun]].{{sfn|Levtzion|1963}} Numbered individuals reigned as ''mansa''; the numbers indicate the order in which they reigned.{{efn|The sixth mansa, [[Mansa Sakura|Sakura]], is omitted from this chart as he was not related to the others. The third and fourth mansas (Wati and Khalifa), brothers of Uli, and fifth (Abu Bakr), a nephew of Uli, Wati, and Khalifa, are omitted to save space.}}
| 1|-1|[[Naré Maghann Konaté|Nare Maghan]]{{efn|Name from oral tradition}}|
| 2| 1|1.&nbsp;[[Sundiata Keita|Sunjata]]|
| 3| 1|[[Mande Bori|Abu Bakr]]|
| 4| 2|2. [[Uli I of Mali|Uli]]|
| 5| 4|7. [[Gao (mansa)|Qu]]|
| 6| 5|8.&nbsp;[[Mohammed ibn Gao|Muhammad]]|
| 7| 3|Faga Leye{{efn|Name from oral tradition}}|
| 8| 7|'''9. Musa I'''|
| 9| 8|10. [[Maghan I|Magha I]]|
| 10| 9|13.&nbsp;[[Mari Djata II of Mali|Mari&nbsp;Jata&nbsp;II]]|
| 11| 10|14. [[Musa II of Mali|Musa&nbsp;II]]|
| 12| 10|15. [[Magha&nbsp;II]]|
| 13| 7|11.&nbsp;[[Sulayman of Mali|Sulayman]]|
| 14| 13|12. [[Kassa (mansa)|Qanba]]|
}}

According to [[Djibril Tamsir Niane]], Musa's father was named Faga Leye{{sfn|Niane|1959}} and his mother may have been named Kanku.{{efn|Musa's name Kanku Musa means "Musa son of Kanku", but the genealogy may not be literal.<ref>{{harvnb|Gomez|2018|pp=109–110}}</ref>}} Faga Leye was the son of [[Mande Bori|Abu Bakr]], a brother of [[Sunjata]], the first mansa of the Mali Empire.{{sfn|Niane|1959}} [[Ibn Khaldun]] does not mention Faga Leye, referring to Musa as Musa ibn Abu Bakr. This can be interpreted as either "Musa son of Abu Bakr" or "Musa descendant of Abu Bakr." It is implausible that Abu Bakr was Musa's father, due to the amount of time between Sunjata's reign and Musa's.<ref>{{harvnb|Levtzion|1963|p=347}}</ref>{{sfn|Fauvelle|2022|p=156}}

[[Ibn Battuta]], who visited Mali during the reign of Musa's brother Sulayman, said that Musa's grandfather was named Sariq Jata.{{sfn|Levtzion|Hopkins|2000|p=295}} Sariq Jata may be another name for Sunjata, who was actually Musa's great-uncle.{{sfn|Levtzion|Hopkins|2000|p=416}} This, along with [[Ibn Khaldun]]'s use of the name 'Musa ibn Abu Bakr' prompted historian Francois-Xavier Fauvelle to propose that Musa was in fact the son of [[Abu Bakr (mansa)|Abu Bakr I]], a grandson of Sunjata through his daughter. Later attempts to erase this possibly illegitimate succession through the female line led to the confusion in the sources over Musa's parentage.{{sfn|Fauvelle|2022|p=173–4}} Hostility towards Musa's branch of the [[Keita dynasty]] would also explain his relative absence from or scathing treatment by oral histories.{{sfn|Fauvelle|2022|p=185}}