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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“One or two days from the coast of Zanj one found Qambalû, perhaps the island of Pemba, just off the extreme northern coast of current Tanzania… a mixed population of idolaters and Muslims… the early days of the Swahili civilization that would develop and spread from the beginning of the second millennium: a civilization that was at once African, Muslim, seafaring, and commercial.”
— The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle
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