Sheriff, Abdul

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Kizimkazi -Dimbani is at the southern end of Unguja island in the Zanzibar archipelago. It has a mosque with the earliest known floriated Kufic inscription, dated to 500/1107. It is near the older site of Unguja Ukuu, which was settled from about 500 C.E. to 338/950 (Juma) and c…

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, w…