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Islamization in the Coastal region of Kenya to the end the Nineteenth Century
The first
Muslims
to arrive in what is now Kenya
came
by sea
more
than
a
thousand
years ago.
Whether
they were
Arabs
or
Persians,
and
exactly
where they came from, may never be
known.
Present
...
The coastal hinterland and interior of East Africa
Although Islam has been present on the East African coast for more than twelve centuries (chapter 12), in assessing the extent of Islamic influence we need to distinguish between the Swahili towns, centers of Islam on or ...
Religion and society
The peoples of the Kenya Coast follow a variety of religious traditions. Whereas Islam has been present in the region for centuries, the beginning of Christianity in modern times only goes back some 150 years.
African ...
Rural madrasas of the Southern Kenya Coast, 1971-92
The past two decades in Kenya have witnessed the opening of a large number of new Muslim educational institutions (madrasas), in rural as well as urban areas, in places where Muslim communities predominate and in places ...