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  Mansa Musa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Musa was the grandson of the founder of the Mali's Empire, Sundiata Keita, and ruled over Mali while it was the source of almost half the world's gold.
The Arab historian al-Umari records that Musa was so generous that he ran out of money and had to take out a loan to be able to afford the journey home.
Musa's hajj, and especially his gold, caught the attention of both the Islamic and Christian worlds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansa_Musa   (302 words)

  
 Musa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Musa, one of three genera in the family Musaceae that includes bananas and plantains.
Abu Musa, an island in the Persian Gulf.
Jebel Musa, a mountain in the northernmost part of Morocco on the African side of the Straits of Gibraltar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Musa   (153 words)

  
 Mali Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The empire was founded by the king, or Mansa, Sundiata Keita, was famous for the generosity and wealth of Mansa Kankan Musa I, and for the fabled wealth of the city of Timbuktu.
Musa was so generous that he ran out of money and had to take out a loan to be able to afford the journey home.
Musa's grandson, Mari Diata II, is remembered by Tunisian historian ibn Khaldun as a debauched, unpopular tyrant, and even the administrative skills of his son Musa II failed to halt the decline.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mali_Empire   (679 words)

  
 Mansa Musa
Musa became best known over the centuries for his show of wealth during his pilgrimage, or religious trip, to Mecca in what is today Saudi Arabia.
Musa rode on horseback, led by a group of 500 slaves, each carrying a walking stick decorated with gold.
Musa invited many of the finest poets, scholars, and artists from Africa and central Asia to live in Timbuktu.
www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/musa   (577 words)

  
 Musa basjoo
Musa basjoo P. (B.) von Siebold and J. Zuccarini, Synopsis Plantarum Oeconomicarum universi regni Japonici, in Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap, 12de Deel: 18 (1830).
Musa basjoo is commonly referred to as the Japanese Fibre Banana and it's native place is given as the Ryukyu (Liu Kiu) Islands.
Musa basjoo is not from the Liu Kiu Islands and not from Japan, it is a Chinese species.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~drc/mbasjoo.htm   (1595 words)

  
 Prophet Musa and Harun
Musa's mother was pregnant with Harun (pbuh) in a year that boys were spared; thus she gave birth to the child publicly and safely.
Musa was raised in the palace as a prince.
Musa ignored his sarcasm and explained that he was not a disbeliever when he killed the Egyptian, he only went astray and Allah the Almighty had not yet given him the revelation at that time.
anwary-islam.com /prophet-story/musa.htm   (5057 words)

  
 Mansa Musa, An African Builder - Habeeb Salloum
Subsequently, Musa's name and that of Sundiata were to dominate the history of the empire.
Musa was famed for his piety and the building of imposing mosques, yet he never fought a religious war and applied Muslim policies with an hesitant hand.
At Musa's death in 1337, Mali's influence extended from the Atlantic in the west to Hausaland in the east.
www.africanevents.com /Essay-Habeeb-MansaMusa.htm   (1062 words)

  
 MUSA Project
MUSA participated in the "E-Tools and Translation" session of the Languages and the Media Conference, November 3-5 2004, Berlin.
MUSA participated in the IST Event 2004, November 15-17 2004, The Hague.
MUSA aims at the creation of a multimodal multilingual system that converts audio streams into text transcriptions, generates subtitles from these transcriptions and then translates the subtitles in other languages.
sifnos.ilsp.gr /musa   (1071 words)

  
 Musa balbisiana
The fruits of Musa balbisiana are pickled (presumably when young before the seeds have developed) and the male flower buds are eaten as a vegetable according to Uphof 1968.
In fact, Musa balbisiana (as Musa liukiuensis) is the true Japanese Fibre Banana or ito-basho grown (but mainly "wild") in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan from which the cloth basho is woven.
Musa basjoo is not the Japanese Fibre Banana.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~drc/mbalbisiana.htm   (828 words)

  
 PLAYAHATA.COM
Mansa Musa's fame and wealth as well as that of his state was known far and wide, even to Europe who at the time was a relatively unknown region in world affairs.
It is entitled, "Mansu Musa: Lord of the Negroes of Guinea".
Under Mansa Musa's patronage, vast libraries were built and "madrasas" (Islamic universities) were endowed; Timbuctu became a meeting-place of the finest Qu'ranic theologians, poets, scholars, and artists of Africa and the Muslim world.
www.playahata.com /pages/bhfigures/bhfigures6.html   (1100 words)

  
 Musa al-Kazim
Musa's Imamate coincided with one of the greatest periods of the persecution of the Shi'i community.
After this rocky start, Musa managed to gain the allegiance of most of the Shi'i community but as time went on persecution increased until it climaxed under the bloody reign of the Caliph Harun ar-Rashid.
Musa al-Kazim was succeeded by his son Ali r-Rida.
i-cias.com /e.o/7thimam.htm   (225 words)

  
 Musa
The genus Musa was traditionally classified into five sections (Ingentimusa, Australimusa, Callimusa, Musa and Rhodochlamys) but these have recently (2002) been reduced to three.
Musa beccarii Simmonds is reported as having a chromosome number of x (= 1n) = 9 and 10, the latter due to multivalent formation during meiosis.
It is probable that the Fe'i bananas derive mainly from Musa maclayi although their origins are not as well understood as the section Musa bananas.
www.fastload.org /mu/Musa.html   (1084 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch - Musa Hilal - Darfur
Although many eyewitnesses have named Musa Hilal as a leader of militia forces responsible for some of the most brutal attacks in Darfur, in the videotape he denies any leadership role and says his followers have not committed atrocities.
Musa Hilal’s forces were initially recruited from among his tribesmen in North Darfur, and have been active for several years around the Kebkabiya area, where Human Rights Watch conducted research in October 2004.
Musa Hilal is known for taking women prisoners and holding them at Jebel Jur (meaning “hunger mountain”;) west of Misteriya.
hrw.org /video/2005/musa   (585 words)

  
 [KFCC] Musa Review
In all actuality, MUSA is a beautiful and vicious tale of people of different cultures banding together in order to find their way home in the midst of tragedy.
One of the most amazing aspects of MUSA is its ability to focus on the matter at hand while developing the characters that drive the heart of the film.
MUSA is a great film that combines the same appealing attributes of war and historical films.
www.kfccinema.com /reviews/swordplay/musa/musa.html   (1055 words)

  
 Jebel Musa - Mt. Sinai (BiblePlaces.com)
Jebel Musa is Arabic for "the mountain of Moses." The mountain is ascended by 3700 steps carved by a monk (known as the "steps of repentance").
At the summit of Jebel Musa is the chapel to the Holy Trinity.
The traditional location, Jebel Musa, is in southern Sinai, but some believe that this is too distant from the Nile Delta for the Israelites to have traveled in the time described in Scripture (preferring a location in northern or central Sinai).
www.bibleplaces.com /jebelmusa.htm   (601 words)

  
 Daily Express, Sabah, Malaysia -- News Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is to ensure all oil palm processing mills located near the river comply with the requirements by refraining from disposing waste into the river, he said, adding the department must take immediate action in accordance with the laws against pollution.
Musa said this to reporters during a visit Sunday to Kampung Sim-Sim Tengah, where more than 100 families were left homeless by last week's pre-dawn fire.
Musa also said the Kampung Sim-Sim Tengah fire victims would be accorded alternative homes under the Federal Government's National Housing Scheme provided they were qualified.
www.dailyexpress.com.my /news.cfm?NewsID=37810   (396 words)

  
 Mr. Dowling's Mansa Musa Page
Mansa Musa captured the attention of the Arab world when he left his home in the West African kingdom of Mali to make a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.
Unlike his grandfather Sundiata, Mansa Musa was a devout Muslim.
When Mansa Musa passed through Cairo, legends say he gave away so much gold that the price of it fell and the economy was affected for more than twenty years.
www.mrdowling.com /609-mansamusa.html   (305 words)

  
 Zhang Ziyi CSC: Filmography: Musa
Musa is based on a true story and is filmed with dark overtones of violence and realistic battlescenes.
Musa (Wushi in Chinese, meaning Warrior) has officially premiered on China.
In Ziyi's words, Musa is a typical Korean movie, especially capturing the spirit of the Korean warrior.
csc.ziyi.org /filmography/musa   (721 words)

  
 The Profile of Prime Minister Said W. Musa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Said Wilbert Musa was born in San Ignacio, Cayo District in the morning of 19 March, 1944.
As a young lawyer and a political and social activist, Said became involved with the United Black Association for Development (UBAD) with Evan X Hyde and a group of young, talented, socially conscious Belizeans, who made an impact on the Belizean scene of the early to mid-1970's.
But before the culmination of this phase of the struggle, Musa was a key figure in the drafting of the Constitution of the independent Belize and the discussions leading to the peaceful transition from self-governing colonial status to independent state.
www.belize.gov.bz /pm/bio.html   (1116 words)

  
 Musa: The Warrior (KOREA 2001)
Joo Jin-Moo and Zhang Ziyi in Musa: The Warrior.
Musa can also be praised for its attention to character development, as each warrior in the film goes from anonymous "arrow-fodder" to a much more defined character, each with a developing storyline.
Musa: The Warrior is a spectacle with a message, an action movie with a heart.
www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/musa_the_warrior.htm   (510 words)

  
 Banu_Musa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Harun al-Rashid became the fifth Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty on 14 September 786, not long after Musa ibn Shakir, the father of the Banu Musa brothers, was born.
An example of this change is seen in the life of Musa ibn Shakir, the father of the Banu Musa brothers, who was a robber in his youth but turned to science, becoming highly proficient in astronomy.
The Banu Musa were among the first Arabic scientists to study the Greek mathematical works and to lay the foundation of the Arabic school of mathematics.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Banu_Musa.html   (1190 words)

  
 Musa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Musa was a wonderful, gentle dog and a big brother to Thor.
Musa will sleep all the way there in the floorboard of the car, until we start through Athens, when he wakes up.
Musa may look like he is resting, but he is watching to make sure no one bothers Thor.
pages.zdnet.com /mbryan4054/thehodges/id3.html   (164 words)

  
 Imam al-Musa al-Kadhim (a.s.)
Abu al-Hasan Musa, peace be on him, was the most religious of the men of his time, the most knowledgeable in law, the most generous and the noblest in spirit.
Musa, peace be on him, was concerned and summoned Ali.
For a group had claimed during the life of Musa that he was the awaited Imam (al- Muntazar) who would continue to undertake the Imamate for the rest of time (al-qa'im).
www.al-islam.org /masoom/bios/7thimam.html   (7655 words)

  
 Early African Empires and their Global Connections
Mansa Musa annexed the cities of Gao and TIMBUKTU to MALI and greatly expanded the Empire.
Mansa Musa was a Muslim; since most of his subjects were not, he allowed diverse religious practices to flourish during his reign.
MANSA SULAYMAN: Ruler of Mali from 1336 to 1358 and MANSA MUSA's brother.
www.globaled.org /nyworld/materials/african3.html   (1627 words)

  
 Musa
A grandson or grandnephew of the warrior king Sundiata, who first established Mali as a major empire in the 13th century, Musa extended it still further and ruled it at the height of its extent and power.
The pivotal event in Musa's reign was his famous pilgrimage to Mecca (1324-1325).
It involved a retinue of thousands, including 500 slaves bearing golden staffs; 100 camels, each loaded with 300 lb of gold; and such lavish spending in Cairo that the price of gold plummeted and took a dozen years to recover.
www.africana.com /research/encarta/tt_321.asp   (161 words)

  
 CJ Entertainment
This realistic action is heightened by its presentation on a Cinemascope screen that has been enlarged from the usual 1.85:1 ratio to 2.35:1, making the action scenes more powerful and the on-location panoramic views more abundant.
"MUSA" tells the story of Korea warriors and their journey across the Great Chinese continent as they traverse through desert, wasteland, and canyons to return to their home country.
The art team for "MUSA" is especially notable for the awards they have received, such as an award for art direction at the 73rd U.S. Academy Awards with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and an award for costumes at the British Academy Awards.
www.cjent.co.kr /English/ProductList/musa/index.asp   (800 words)

  
 Musa.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Musa cultivars are very frequently mis-named in catalogues and the gardening literature.
Musa laterita suckers freely but the suckers are borne at the ends of long rhizomes.
Musa laterita is suitable only for greenhouse or conservatory culture in the UK, where it is easily flowered in a 15 litre pot, but can be stood outside in filtered sunlight in the summer.
www.hardygeraniums.com /somerset_nccpg/Musa.htm   (350 words)

  
 Said Musa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image of Said Musa speaking in the UN Said Wilbert Musa (born March 19, 1944) is Prime Minister of Belize since 1998.
Said Musa was born in San Ignacio Cayo of Palestinian descent.
After preliminary education in Belize (then British Honduras) he studied law at the University of Manchester in England, receiving an Honours Degree in Law in 1966.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Said_Musa   (188 words)

  
 MUSA Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Our staff is comprised of outstanding artists and highly respected specialists who are ready to contribute their talents to the success of your enterprise.
MUSA Ltd. represents excellent quality of recording services with the growing international team of experienced conductors, engineers, producers, orchestrators and musicians.
All key personnel from the producer to the orchestra contractor to the music director and conductor must work in perfect harmony.
www.musa.cz   (265 words)

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