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After traveling to Mali, al-Sahili settled in
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Al-Sahili directed the construction of an audience chamber in the capital of Mali, for which Musa paid him 12,000 mithqals (51 kg) of gold. Al-Sahili's contribution may have been largely managerial, and the payment may have included the construction budget. However, al-Sahili's calligraphic skills
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attested that his father died of natural causes. Al-Sahili may have encouraged positive relations between Mali and the
Marinid Sultanate, and at some point between 1331 and 1337, al-Sahili traveled to the Maghreb and exchanged gifts with the
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were well-regarded, and he may have had a personal hand in decorating the building. On some occasion, possibly as part of the payment for the audience chamber, Musa gave al-Sahili 4,000 mithqals in a single day.
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Granada, al-Sahili became a drafter of legal documents and did some work on legal problems. In this time, he became known as a poet and was described in laudatory terms by his contemporary
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Al-Sahili's date of birth is unknown, but he was already a well-known poet by the time of his departure from
Grenada in
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al-Tuwayjin, which translates as "the small casserole", but no explanation has been found for this name.
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322:Footnotes
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189:Biography
183:sobriquet
127:poet and
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927:Tadmekka
922:Timbuktu
771:Musa III
756:Magha II
736:Sulayman
721:Muhammad
706:Abu Bakr
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171:Muhammad
125:Andalusi
64:Timbuktu
1099:Culture
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