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Upon his return in 1324, Mūsā I’s pious pilgrimage inspired him to commission two enormous mosques in Timbuktu and Gao. He encouraged his subjects’ immersion in scholarship, the arts, and the Qurʾān. He intended to abdicate the throne and return to Mecca but died before he was able to do so.
