Mansa Sulayman

Mansa Sulayman (d. c. 1360), brother of Mansa Musa, ruled Mali from about 1341 after Musa's son Maghan, and may have deposed Maghan, whom he had earlier been passed over for.

He kept up Musa's diplomacy with the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan of Fez, and in 1348 or 1349 sent an embassy to congratulate him on his conquests. In 1352 the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reached his court and left the fullest eyewitness account of Mali at its height, noting the land's security but finding Sulayman a miser beside Musa.

During Ibn Battuta's stay, Sulayman imprisoned his principal wife and cousin Qasa and accused her of conspiring against him, and the court condemned her. Sulayman died around 1360, the last great mansa. His son Qasa reigned nine months, and the civil war that followed ended Mali's golden age.