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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 ...