This is an update to my earlier thread regarding interactions between Somalis and the two Caliphates that followed the Prophet SAW and the first 4 Caliphs
The Kitāb Futūḥ Al-Buldān was written by Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Balādhūrī (d. c. 892 CE). The work offers an account of the early conquests of...
An Azanian Trio: Three East African Arabic Historical Documents
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZGzDDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PR1&dq=an%20azanian%20trio%20of%20historical%20documents&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false
This book covers 3 Arabic texts and includes a translation of each 3 and a transcription of them...
Zheng He (鄭和 ) was a legendary Chinese Muslim navigator and Admiral during 14th & 15th century in the Ming Dynasty. A complete map of his travels was compiled 200 years after his death covering and is known as the Mao Kun map (鄭和航海圖 ).
He visited the cities of Mogadishu ( 木骨都束 )and Barawe (...
When few enslaved people in the United States could write, one man wrote his memoir in Arabic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/01/20/when-few-enslaved-people-could-write-one-man-wrote-his-memoirs-arabic/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c7772afc6777
Wallahi reading this was so beautiful...
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