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Afdal al-Din Kirmani : (1200)
'Iqd al-'ula (About Government)  Persia
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Afdal al-Din Kirmani, Taj al-Zaman Aḥmad b. Hamid, was a poet, historian and physician at the court of the Saljaqs of Kirman. He probably died ca. 1218, but it is not known where. ‘Eqd al-‘ola le’l-mawqef al-a’la deals with history, statecraft, and ethics, written for Malek Dinar in 1188AD. Badaye al-azman fi waqaye Kerman, on the history of the Saljuqs of Kerman. In these works some mentions of the trade with East Africa.
Taken from: Encyclopedia of Islam ; article on Kirman province.
Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, Volume 7

 By Historical Society of Ghana, Gold Coast & Togoland Historical Society

The Geographical journal‎  1902

A history of Persia, Volume 2  By Percy Molesworth Sykes

 

Portuguese castle in Tiz

Zanzibar trade is mentioned at Kirman during the reign of
Arslanshah bin Kirmanshah (1142-1156), one of the Saljuqs of Kirman,
 
Caravans from Asia Minor, Khorasan (4), and Iraq passed through Kirman (1) bound for Abyssinia, Zanzibar and China.

 

(And also of similar trade under Malik Dinar 1188):

There is also the gap of Tiz (2) that belongs to Kerman. Much merchandise from the tenths paid as customs and from the harbour dues reaches the royal treasury. Inhabitants of Hind, Sind (3), Abyssinia, Zanzibar, Egypt, and the country of the Arabs from Oman and Bahrein trade there. Every kind of musk, ambergris, indigo, and logwood, and aromatic roots of Hind and slaves of Hind and Abyssinia and Zanzibar, and also fine velvets, shawls, sashes (11), and the like rare products have their market at this post. Near Tiz (2) is Mekran (9), the mine of candy and sugar which they export to all countries of the unbelievers and of Islam.

(He places Tiz on the frontier of Kirman (1), though usually it is reckoned as belonging to Makran)

 

Afzal al-din Kermani; Badaye al-azman fi waqaye Kerman, on the history of the Saljuqs of Kerman

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Taken from: http://download.ghbook.ir/download.php?id=11120&file=8479-f-13920604-saljugheyan-va-ghoz-dar-kerman.htm

 

Scholars from around the horizons began to join convoys bringing the smell of Khorasan (4) and Iraq and Ethiopia and Zanzibar and Hindustan all horizons of its passage and off the coast of China and Daryabar (10) opened houses and mansion in suburbs of the city of Kerman.

 

Plunder of Jiroft (5)

After a few days, even in Ramadan  Aibek, a former colonel with the Turks started the march to Jiroft (5), and Qamadyn (6) where the good things of China and India and Ethiopia and Zanzibar could be found and sea lanes from Roman and Egypt and connections to Azerbaijan and Transoxiana (7) and Khorasan (4) and Fars (8) and Iraq…..

(1) Kirman: province in Iran.

(2) Tiz: port on the shore besides Macran in Iran.

(3) Sind: In Pakistan

(4) Khorasan: Afghanistan + Eastern Iran.

(5) Jiroft: is a city and capital of Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran.

(6) Qamadyn: Kamadin; suburb of Jiroft (Marco Polo: Camadi) was destroyed by the Mongols.

(7) Transoxiana: eastern Uzbekistan.

(8) Fars: region in Iran.

(9) Makran: Mekran or Mecran and Mokran, is the coastal region of Baluchistan (Pakistan).

(10) Darya: coastal city (In Dehkhoda Dictionary); meaning the land of Coastal Cities.

(11) sash: a long strip or loop of cloth worn over one shoulder or round the waist, especially as part of a uniform or official dress.