Kilwa

by Sheriff, Abdul

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Kilwa Kisiwani (lit., Kilwa on the island) on the southern coast of Tanzania was at the southern edge of the monsoon system that connected it to the Indian Ocean and at the entrance to the Mozambique channel that led to Sofala, a terminus of the gold trade route from Zimbabwe, with whose resources Kilwa flourished in the Middle Ages. According to Chittick (Shirazi, 276), an Iron Age agricultural and fishing community had begun, in the second/ninth century, to be involved in trans-oceanic trade,…

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Kilwa Kisiwani (lit., Kilwa on the island) on the southern coast of Tanzania was at the southern edge of the monsoon system that connected it to the Indian Ocean and at the entrance to the Mozambique channel that led to Sofala, a terminus of the gold trade route from Zimbabwe, with whose resources Kilwa flourished in the Middle Ages. According to Chittick (Shirazi, 276), an Iron Age agricultural and fishing community had begun, in the second/ninth century, to be involved in trans-oceanic trade, with the appearance of Sāsānid

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2898

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eng Islam

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Sheriff, Abdul

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