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East African contacts with the Classical World
Pharaoh Nefrikare 2500BC
Queen Hatshepsut 1495BC
Supparaka Jataka 400BC
Aristotle 350BC
Sariputta 250BC
Agatharchides of Cnidus 150BC
Nanyue King's Zhao Mo 122BC
Polybius 118BC
Strabo 12AD
Yashhur’il 25AD
Pliny the Elder 79AD
Periplus Maris Erythraei 100AD
Periplus map 100AD
Notes on Periplus 100AD
Claudius Ptolemy 150AD
maps of Ptolemy 150AD
Rhapta Archaeology
Caius Julius Solinus 250AD
Yu Huan 265AD
Marcian of Heraclea 300AD
Agathemerus son of Orthon 300AD
Chen Shou 3th
Kuo P'o 324AD
Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan 400AD
Philostorgius 400AD
Ambrosius 400AD
Orosius 417AD
Fan Yeh 445AD
Proclus Lycaeus 485
Ethiopian Bible 500
Moses of Khoren 500
Cosmas Indicopleustes 545
Note on Mediterranean trade
Joannes Philoponus 549
Skariphos of Tebel 555
Stephanos Byzantios 565
Olympiodorus the Younger 570
Wei Shou 572
Ayadgar I Jamaspig 577
Babylonian Talmud (before 600AD)
Yasomitra 600
Yao Silian 635
Linghu Defen 636
Introduction
Beginning and Evolution of the Swahili Society
Swahili Forts and City Walls
Abstract: The History of the Swahili Coast in Written Sources.
The Medieval History of Zimbabwe
The Medieval History of Madagascar
Medieval Swahili in Madagascar.
Abstract: African Diaspora
Abstract: Slaves and Slavery -East Africa.
Visitors to East Africa
Textual Evidence of Immigration from the Horn
Pate in the 15th century
Note on Rulers/God among the Zanj
The Growth of Islam in Written Documents
When did the Swahili become Maritime?
An Ocean filled with Ships
Local Ships and Portuguese Ships made locally.
Note on Trade
Lime: Production and Use.
Iron Production
Medieval Swahili Caravanserai
Trade in Cowries
Rock Crystal Trade
Madagascar Soapstone Trade
Pearls from Sofala of the Zanj
Salt Trade
Copper Trade from S-Central Africa
Crop and Animal Importation into East Africa
Food production: Crops-Animals
Horses during the Middle Ages?
Swahili Coast Coins
Thread and Cloth
Genetic Make-up of the Swahili Comoros Madagascar.
White, brown, black Moors
Population Change 2000BC-2000AD
East African Interior at the End of the 15th century
1 Contents till 900
Imru’u-l-Qays 600
Hsuan-Tsang 630
Su Kun 650
Ali Zayn al-Abidin ibn Husain 657
Abu Mikhnaf 680
Abid ibn Sharya al-Jurhumi 686
Umayr Ibn Qatadah 'Ubayd b. 'Umayr 694
Greek fragment of text 700
Dandin 700
Jacob of Edessa 708
Chachnama or Fatehnama-I-Sindh 710
Note on Daibal or Debal or Daibul or Daybul 710
Al Fazari 722
Jarir b. Atiya 728
Zayd Ibn Ali 740
Salim Abu al ala 743
Ibn Al Muqaffa 756
Ja'far al Sadiq 765
Uddyotana Suri 778
Bashshar Ibn Burd 783
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi 791
Sibawayh 796
Li Sun 800
Zhang Ji 800
Note on KUNLUN empire 800
Muhammad b. Idris al-Shafi'i 800
Yehudai Gaon 800
Yahya ibn Barmak 800
Asmaee 800
Sunaih bin Rabah 8th
Tu Yu 801
Jia Dan 801
Abu Al-Shamaqmaq 815
Early Persian-Shiite prayer 818
Ali al Ridha 818
Hui-Lin 820
Abu Amr al- Shaybani 821
Simeon Kayyara 825
Dicuil 825
Caliph Al-Mamoun 833
More correct Map
Bai Juyi 846
Al Khwarizmi 847
Dunhuang 847
Sahnun ibn Sa'id ibn Habib at-Tanukhi 854
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 855
Ibn Masawaih 857
Ahmad al-Azraqi 858
Sri Bwuwanecwara Wishnu 860
Note on the Inscriptions found on Java 860
Tuan Ch'eng-Shih 863
Al-Jahiz Sudan 869
Jahiz Kitab al-Hayawan 869
Note on the Giraffe painting 869
Jahiz Kitab al-Hayawan castration 869
Jahiz other books 869
Sabur ibn Sahl 869
Ibn Abd al Hakam 871
al-kindi-d873
Ibn Qutayba 880
Al Fakihi 883
Eldad ha-Dani 883
Abu Mashar al-Balkhi 885
Ibn Khordadbeh 886
Ahmed bin Yahya bin Jabir 893
Al Dinawari 895
Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi 897
Al Mubarrad 898
Tombstone on the isle of Dahlak 900
Abu Jabir Muhammad b. Ja'far 900
Ahmad ibn Abi’l-Hawari 900
Bundahishn 900
Letter of Tansar 900
Zad Sparam 900
2 Contents 901 - 1000
Al Hajari 901
Ibn Rosteh 903
Ibn al-Fakih al Hamadhani 903
Moses Bar Kepha 903
Ibn Wahshiyya 904
Al-Kisa'i 904
Ibn ar Riwandi 910
Qusta ibn Luqa 912
Al Masudi 916
Masudi : Kitab et Tanbih 916
Abu Zaid al Hassan 916
Sri Tulodong 919
Al-Tabari 922
Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi 925
Al-Battani 929
Qadama 930
Sri Mpu Sindok 931
Ibrahim bin Mohammed al Bayhaqi 932
Ibn Durayd 933
Abu I-Tayyib Muhammad al-Washsha 936
Al-Kulayni 939
Liu Xu 940
Note on the Zangi slaves offered as tribute to China 940
Eutychius of Alexandria 940
Ibn Abd Rabbih 940
Agapius of Hierapolis 941
Suhrab 945
Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani 945
Abu Zakariyya al Azdi 945
Ibn al-Qass 946
Ibn Serapion 950
Kitab Ikhwan as-safa 950
Hu Kiao 953
Buzurg ibn Shahriyar 955
Some general conclusions out of Buzurg's book 955
A Cushitic Custom
Note on : Ambergris 955
Al-Khasibi 957
Istakhri 957
Wang Pu 961
Hamza al-Isfahani 961
Talha ibn Ubaydullah al-Awni 961
Al Ukbar 964
Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi 966
Ismail bin Al-Qasim 967
Al Kindi 968
Ibn-Hawqal 970
Maps of Istakhri and Ibn Hawqal 970
Maps short Version Ibn Hawqal 970
Ibn abi l Ash'ath 970
Abu’l-Faraj al-Isfahani 971
Al Tabarini 971
Saiyyidna Qadi al-Nu'man 974
Arib ibn Sa'd al-Qurtubi 976
ibn Ali al-Harawi 976
Ibn Uday Al-Jurjani 976
Abu Imran Musa ibn Rabah al-Awsi al-Sirafi 978
Li Fang 980
Jnatadharmakatha Suryaprajnapti 980
Sa'id al-Tamimi 980
Mimra al Sabha Klime 980
Al-Azhari 981
Al-Jassas 981
Hudud Al-'Alam 982
Ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Qayrawani 983
Al-Muqaddasi 985
Ibn al-Nadim 987
Az-Zubaidi 989
Al Hasan ibn Ahmad Azizi 990
Ibn Babawayh 991
Al-Muhassin ibn Ali al-Tanukhi 994
Ibn Juljul 994
al-Sahib ibn Abbad
Al-Namari 995
Ibn Abi Zayd 995
Ibn Zulaq 996
Al-Khwarizmi 997
Aupapatika Sutra 1000
Varaha Purana 1000
Muhammad Bal'ami 1000
Ferdowsi 1000
Constantine Porphyrogenitus 1000
Al-Sijistani 1000
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi 1000
Kitab fihi na’t al Hayawan 1000
Hassan Bar Bahlul 1000
Hafs al-Quti 1000
Abu Shu’aib Salih 1000
Imam Ali 1000
Prasasti Nganjatan 10th
Annon Hykayat 10th
3 Contents 1001 - 1100
Al Jawhari 1001
Abu Hilal Al-Askari 1005
Xing Bing 1010
Abu al Mutahhar al Azdi 1010
Wang Ch'in-jo 1013
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani 1013
Qadhi Abu Bakr al-Baqillani 1013
Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad 1017
Elias of Nasibin 1019
Al-Sijzi 1020
Sri Airlanga: Inscription of Cane 1021
Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi 1023
Abd al-Jabbar 1025
Ibn Miskawayh 1030
Al Abi 1030
Al Marzouki Isfahani 1030
Sri Airlanga: Inscription of Baru 1030
Ibn Iraq 1036
Ibn Sina 1037
Al Baghdadi 1037
Farrukhi Sistani 1037
Tha'alibi 1038
R. Hai Gaon 1038
Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani 1038
Sri Airlangga: Inscription Gandhakuti 1042
Sri Airlangga: inscription of Pandan 1042
Note Sri Airlangga civil war
Abu’l-Husayn al-Basri 1044
Abu Said Ibn Abi Al Khair 1049
Al-Biruni India 1050
Al-Biruni stones 1050
Note on Rock Cristal 1050
Al Biruni; Tarhdeid nikeayeat al-aneakin 1050
Al Biruni: Kitab al-Saydanah fi Al-Tibb 1050
Al Biruni; Al-Qanum al Mas'udi 1050
Al Biruni; Al-Tafh im li-aw a'il sin a'at al-tanj im 1050
Biruni's map 1050
Al Biruni ancient nations 1050
Gardizi 1050
Kitab Ghara'ib al-funun 1050
Note on Indian Ocean Map
Maslamah ibn Ahmad Majriti 1050
Nasir-I Khusraw 1052
Jayakeshi I 1052
Sri Mapanji Garasakan 1053
Hilal ibn al-Muhassin Sabi 1056
Abul Ala al Ma’arri 1057
Ahmad ibn al-Khatib al-Baghdadi 1058
Ishaq b. al-Hasan b. Abi'l-Husayn al-Zayyat 1058
Tarikh-e Sistan 1062
Ibn Hazm al Andalusi 1064
Yang Xiu and Song Qi 1066
Ibn Butlan 1066
Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi 1066
Ibn Sida 1066
Abu Ubayd Al Bakri 1067
Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Razi 1068
Sa'id al-Andalusi 1070
Balasagunlu Yusuf 1070
Ibn Abd al-Barr 1071
al-Qurtubi 1071
El-Kasgari 1074
Ibn al-Wafid 1074
Nasir al-Rammal al-Haykali 1075
Abu’l Fadl al Bayhaqi 1077
Michael Attaleiates 1080
al-Muwatta 1081
Kai Ka’us b. Iskander 1083
Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad Al-Qayrawani 1085
Nizam al-Mulk 1091
Abou'l Maali 1092
Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad 1095
Al-Awhadi 1100
Ts’ai Tiao 1100
A Copy of Timothy of Gaza's 1100
Baha al-Din al-Muqtana 1100
Ata i Razi 1100
D'ellath Kul 'Ellon 1100
Ibn Rahiqs 1100
Letter from Alexandria 1100
Shah Mardan Ibn Abi al-Khayr 1100
Faramarzname 1100
Azraqi Heravi 1100
Manucehri 1100
Letter JRL SERIES B 6427 (11th)
Nahray b. Nathan (11th)
Abu l-Muna b. Ya’aqov (11th)
Sirat Delhemma 1100
4 Contents 1101 - 1200
Li Kung-Lin 1106
Osman Mokhtari 1106
Al-Raghib al-Isfahani 1109
Abu Nasr Ahmad 1110
Ismail Gorgani 1110
Iranshah ibn Abu’l-Khayr 1110
Imam al Ghazzali 1111
Ibn al Labbanah 1113
Ibn al-Qaysarani 1113
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al Kindi 1114
Abd al- Rahman al-Khazini 1115
Ibn Shahradar 1115
Salma b. Muslim al-Awtabi 1116
Ibn al-Balhi 1117
Chu Yu 1119
Al Marvazi 1120
Sri Bameswara Maharaja 1120
note africa australia
ibn Hibatullah Al Aftasi 1121
Al Hariri 1122
al-Maydani 1124
Mudjmal al -Tawarikh wa-l-qisas 1126
Stephen of Pisa 1127
Hakim Sana’i 1131
Sri Mapanji Jayabhaya 1135
Al Zuhri 1137
Joseph ibn Abraham 1137
Mahruz b.Ya’qub 1137
Al Kharaqi 1138
Ben Yiju 1140
One of Ben Yiju’s workers 1140
Khalaf b. Isaac 1140
Abu Zikri Kohen 1140
Genizah Letter 1140
Al-Zamakhshari 1144
Li Shi 1150
Idrissi World Map 1150
Al Idrisi 1150
Al Idrissi maps 1150
Idris map of the East African Coast 1150
Note on the Zavaga or Zabaga
Idris projected on Modern Map 1150
Al Idris Ouns al Moubhadj 1192
Al-Qadi Ayyad 1150
Muhammad ibn Najib Bakran 1150
Ibn al-Astarkuni 1153
Qattan Marwazi 1153
Usama Ibn Munqidh 1154
Hun Hao 1155
Said b. Marhab 1156
Babi al-Fotouh al-Razi 1157
Ibn Rushd 1160
Mohammad ebn Mahmud ebn Ahmad Tusi 1160
Chen Shan 1160
Abu Bakr al-Kindi 1162
Ibrahim Hamedi 1162
Al-Shayzari 1164
Al Iskandari 1165
Al Ghafiqi 1165
Coptic Pope Mark III of Alexandria 1167
Al Garnati 1169
Ali ibn Zaid al Baihaqi 1170
Abd al-Karim ibn M. al Samani 1172
Umarah ibn Ali al-Hakami 1174
Samawal ibn Yahya al-Maghribi al-Israili 1175
Ibn Asakir 1175
Chou Ch'u-fei 1178
Al Wahrani 1180
Beyhaqi Nishabouri Kidari 1181
Ibn Hisham Al-Lakhmi 1181
Abu Bakr ibn al-Muzhir 1184
Abu al Qasim al Suhayli 1185
Ibn Jubair 1185
Abu Bakr Al-Hazimi 1188
Khaqani 1190
Umar Ibn Ali Ibn Samura 1190
Al-Madd wa-'l-Jazr 1192
Tombstone Island of Dahlak 1193
Fan Chengda 1193
Sri Kertajaya 1194
Eustathius 1194
Al-Marghinani 1197
Ch'en Yuan-Ching 1200
Sadr al-Din al Husayni 1200
Ibn al Jawzi 1200
Abu Tahir Muhammad al-Tarsusi 1200
al Tarsusi Abu Moslem-name 1200
Patli 1200
Malayagiri 1200
Isidore de Seville 1200
Muhammad b. Sa'id al-Qalhati 1200
Afdal al-Din Kirmani 1200
Jacques de Vitey 1200
Abu al-Makarim 1200
Al Dimyati 1200
Murda al Tarsusi 1200
Annon. (Katib Marrakesh) 1200
Abu l-Khayr 1200
Epistola Messallah 1200
Masalik al Mamalik 1200
5 Contents 1201 - 1300
Nizami Ganjavi 1202
Iskandarnama metmuseum 1202
War against the Zanj in Nizami
Moses Maimonides 1204
Mpu Monaguna 1205
Note on Sumanasantaka -Krsnayana
Ruzbihan Baqli 1209
Akhbar al-zaman 1209
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi 1209
Al-Saqati 1210
Samuel Ibn Tibbon 1210
Abul Mufakhir 1219
Yakut (or Jakut) al Hamawi 1220
Note on Silent Trade
Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi 1223
Zhang Ruyu 1224
Ja’far Ibn Shams al-Khilafah 1225
Chao Ju-Kua 1226
Awfi, Sadid al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad Buhari 1228
Fariduddin Attar 1229
Abdallatif 1231
Ibn Al Athir 1231
Ibn-al Mujawir 1232
Mohamed Ben Ali al Qali'i 1233
Murtada Ibn al-Afif 1237
Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Said Ibn Al-Dubaithi 1240
Qin Jiushao 1247
The Leiden ms Or. 2541 1248
Ali ibn Yusuf al-Qifti 1248
Ibn Al-Baytar 1249
Ibn Said al Maghribi 1250
Abul-Hasan Ali al-Marrakushi 1250
Aladua Ralakatibu 1250
Lapidario del rey Alfonso X el Sabio 1250
At Tahqiq fi sira ar raqiq 1250
Al-Saghani 1252
Ibn Yusuf Tifashi 1253
Picatrix 1256
Abul Majd 1257
Ibn al Jawzi 1257
Sa’di of Shiraz 1258
Minhaj Siraj Juzjani 1259
Jirjis ibn aal Amib al-Makin 1260
Chang De 1263
Narasimha Deva-I 1264
Note on Giraffe Sculptures in India
Brunetto Latini 1265
Sayyed Ibn Tawus 1266
Roger Bacon 1267
Zain-Al Din al-Razi 1268
Luo Miandao 1270
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi 1273
Nung sang Chi Yao 1273
Nasir Al Din Al Tousi 1274
Al-Nawawi 1277
Bar Hebraeus 1279
Albertus Magnus 1280
Hendrik Bate van Mechelen 1281
Ibn Khallikan 1282
Baba Afdal 1283
Amir Khusrau 1283
Al-Qazwini Worldmaps 1283
Al-Qazwini Giraffes 1283
Al Qazwini Ebony 1283
Al Qazwini Zebras 1283
Al-Qazwini Aja'ib al-makhluqat 1283
Al-Qazwini Atar al Bilad 1283
Ibn al-Nafis 1288
Ibn Manzur 1290
Abd Ibn Al Zahir 1293
Sri Kertarajasa: Inscription at G. Butak 1294
Safi al-Din Urmawi 1294
Written for Sultan al-Muzaffar 1295
Ibn Hatim 1295
Marco Polo 1295
Ibn Bakhtishu 1295
Ma Tuan-lin 1295
Al-Malik al Ashraf Umar 1296
Wang Ying-lin 1296
Qian Xuan 1299
Ahmad ibn Al Harrani 1300
Wang Cheng 1300
Abu al-Uqul 1300
Ms found at Quseir 1300
Chang Shi-Nan 1300
Chang Chih-fu 1300
Mpu Triguna 1300
Abu Allah Ibn Ali Kashani 1300
Al Farisis 1300
Mohammed Ben Mansur 1300
Nachmanides 1300
Kitab na’t al Hayawan 1300
Ibrahim ibn Mufarrij al Suri 1300
Sefer Toledot Alexandros 1300
Al Rabghuzi 1300
Ibn Jazlah 1300
Zha Ma Lu Ding 1300
Qadi Ibn Sasri Al-Shafi’I 1300
Al Marjani 1300
Mikha'il 1300
Al-Qurtubi 13th
6 Contents 1301 - 1400
Ibn at-Tiqtaqa 1302
Chen Da Zhen 1304
Inscription of Kertarajasa 1305
Georgius Pachymeres 1308
Miscellany of scientific 1309
Sanjar al-Kamali 1310
Nizam al-Din al-Nisapuri 1311
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi 1311
Riccobaldi Ferrariensis 1312
Abd al Halim 1312
Pietro d'Abano 1316
Rashid al-Din Fazlallah 1318
Jamal al Din al-Watwat 1318
Liu Minzhong 1318
Marino Sanudo 1320
Chu Ssu-Pen 1320
Irtifa 1320
Thakkura Pheru 1320
Al Tijani 1321
Zhao Meng 1322
Abu'l Majd Muhammad b. Mas'ud Tabrizi 1323
Ibn al Fuwati 1323
Al-Dimashqi 1325
Baybars al-Mansuri 1325
Al-Yunini 1326
Ibn Taimiyyah 1328
Friar Jordanus 1329
Ibn al-Ukhuwwa 1329
Abul-Rida al-Husayni 1329
Abou Bekr ibn Bedr 1330
Wang Dayuan 1330
Ziya al-Din Nakhshabi 1330
Marginal note in Kitab Al Akrabazin 1330
Codex Cumanicus 1330
Cocharelli 1330
Abu al-Fida 1331
Ibn Battuta mogadishu 1331
Ibn Battuta Mombasa 1331
Ibn Battuta Kilwa 1331
Ibn Battuta African Diaspora 1331
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi 1331
Pseudo Brocardus 1331
Al Janadi 1332
Cao Boqi 1333
Nuwayri 1333
Al-Fayyumi 1334
Ibn al-Dawadari 1335
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shabankara 1337
Safi al din al Baghdadi 1338
Salomo b. Samuel 1339
Qassim Bin Mohammed al Barzali 1339
Mustawfi, Hamd-Allah ibn Abi Bakr Qazvini 1340
Mogadishu part of India
Francesco Balducci Pergolotti 1340
Abd al Rahman al Mizzi 1342
Paulinus Venetus 1343
Al Yamani 1343
Ahmed ibn Othman al Turkmani 1343
Ibn Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi 1343
Tuo Tuo 1345
Cowar el-aqalim 1347
Ibn Al-Akfani 1348
Al-Dhahabi 1348
Ibn al Wardi 1348
Al Umari 1349
Khwaju Kirmani 1349
Najm al din al Misri 1350
Ann. Spanish Franciscan 1350
Ibn Al Qayyem 1350
Ibn al Athir 1350
Mahmud al Amuli 1352
Khajavi kermani 1352
Ibn Ahmed Al-Iji 1355
Taqi al-Din al-Subki 1355
Abdallah ibn Sulayman al-Rayhani al-Mawsili 1356
Jehan de Mandeville 1357
Ibn Abi Hajalah 1357
Al-Mufaddal ibn Abi al-Fada'il 1358
Ibn al Shatir 1360
Ibn Hisham 1360
Arif Ali 1360
Ibn Hodeil 1361
The Book of Job 1362
Salah al- Din al-Safadi 1362
Mujahid ibn Ali ibn Daud 1362
Ibn Falitah 1362
Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi 1365
Chou Chih-Chung 1366
Ibn an-Naqib al-Misri 1367
Pizzigani brothers 1367
Ubayd-i Zakani Poems 1371
Zain al-Manjam ibn Sulaiman Qonavi 1371
Hafedh ibn Kathir 1373
Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib 1374
Al malik al Afdal al-Abbas 1376
Hasan ibn Habib al Halabi 1377
Yeh Tzu-Ch'i 1378
Yahya Ibn Khaldun 1378
Lien Sung 1381
Abul Abbas ibn Ahmed al Kosthinahy 1382
Shams al-Din Muhammad Assar Tabrizi 1382
Said Abd al Aziz al Dairini 1385
Cao Zhao 1387
Da Ming Hun Yi Tu 1389
Jamal al-Din Aqsarai 1389
Hafez-e Sirazi 1390
Padshah Adil Aran Khan 1390
Ibn Rajab 1393
Ibn Sasra 1397
Ann- Iskandarnamah 1400
Mosa Ibin Soza 1400
Bahktyar Nama 1400
Al-Khazraji 1400
Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani 1400
La Galigo 1400
Note on Pao Jengki 1400
Kanz al fawa’id 1400
Persian Epic Adventure 1400
Inscription Pabuharan (14th)
Sirat Bani Hilal 14th
7 Contents 1401 - 1450
Ch'uan Chin and Li Hui 1402
Shape of Africa on the Kangnido 1402
Naga-la Devi 1402
Al-Anwa wa-al-tawqi at 1405
Musa Ud-Damiri 1405
Ibn al Furat 1406
Ibn Khaldun 1406
Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 1406
Ibn Duqmaq 1406
Ahmad Ibn Imad al-Din Aqfahsi 1407
Yongle Dadian 1408
al Hasan ibn Ali al-Sharif al-Husayni 1412
Al Guzuli 1412
Tajuddin Ibrahim Ahmedi 1413
Mu’in al-Din Natanzi 1413
Al Firuzabadi 1414
Note on : Cheng Ho
Note on Giraffes in China
Zeng Qi 1414
Shen Du 1414
Ch'en T'ing-pi
Copy of Giraffe of Shen Du
Annon. copy of Giraffe of Shen Tu
Chen Zhang
Copy Giraffe Shen Tu a
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu b
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu c
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu d
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu e
Copy giraffe Chen Tu f
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu g
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu h
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu i
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu j
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu by Zhu Changxi
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu k
Copy Giraffe of Shen Tu L
Copy Giraffe Shen Tu and Wang Chengpei
Chinese painting of a giraffe with two Arab guides
Chinese painting of a giraffe with two Arab guides b
Chinese painting of a giraffe
Qi-lin rank badge
Qilin embroidery
Joseon Wangjo Sillok 1415
Amin Nazlabadi 1415
Xia Yuan-ji 1416
Ibn Jama'ah Al Kanani Ai Hamawi Al Misri 1416
Taizu shi lu 1418
Sheikh Bighami 1418
Al Qalqashandi 1418
Jin Youzi 1419
Jamshid Ghyath al-Din al-Kashi 1420
Hafiz I Abru 1420
Wang Hong 1420
Salamanca translator 1420
Rukneddin Ahmed 1420
Saraf-ad-din Ali Yazdi 1424
Johannes Schiltberger 1427
Ibn Mahmud al-Rumi Kadizada 1427
Muhammad al Fasi, Maliki 1429
Taizong Shi lu 1430
Al-Bakuvi 1430
Ning Xian Wang 1430
Cheng Ho 1431
Ma Huan 1433
Gong Zhen 1434
Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi 1434
Andrea Bianco 1436
Fei-Hsin 1436
Fattahi Nishapuri 1437
Xuanzong Shih-lu 1438
Ibn Nasir al-Din 1438
Ann. Rasulid Chronicle 1439
Yang Rong 1440
Abu al-Mahasin 1441
Muhammad al-Husayni al-Din al Maqrizi 1441
Luo Maodeng
Zhang, Tingyu
Mao K'un Map
Mao Kun map (first part)
Maokun map (second part)
translation Maokun map 1
translation Maokun map 2
Houang Cheng-ts'eng
Li Shih-chen
Wang Khi
Congjian Yan
Liu Qiu 1443
Hu Yan 1443
Zare'a Ya'kob 1445
Qami al-Nisaburi 1446
Inscription of Raja Wijaya Parakrama Wardana 1447
Hafiz Ibn Hajar al Asqalani 1448
Giovanni Leardo 1448
Walsperger 1448
Ibn Arabshah 1450
al-Abshihi 1450
Taqwim-i Tarikhi 1450
Ibn Hasan Ja'fari 1450
Li Shimian 1450
Shihab al-Din Ahmad al Muqri 1450
8 Contents 1451 - 1500
Ibn al-Ahdal 1451
Al Ayni 1451
Wang Yining 1452
Ahmet Bican 1454
Al Bistami 1455
Al-Nawagi 1455
Husayn Ali Katib 1455
Giovanni Fontana 1455
Worldmaps Ibn Al Wardi 1456
Ibn Al Wardi 1456
Genoese World Map 1457
Ibn Dhahirah 1457
Fra Mauro 1459
Fra Mauro map 1459
Jalal al-Din al-Mahali 1459
Mappamundi Catalan Estense 1460
Al Himyari 1461
Li Hsien 1461
Wang Zhi 1462
Jamali 1465
Yingzong shi lu 1467
Liu Dingzhi 1469
Abdurazzak 1470
Copy of Amir Khusrau's Khamsah 1470
Muhammad Ibn Husam 1470
ibn Majid- Fawa'id 1470
Ibn Madjid-Sufaliyya 1470
The East African Coast Northern Part by Ibn Madjid
The East African Coast Southern Part by Ibn Madjid
The East African Coast Zanzibar by Ibn Madjid
Ibn Majid Hawiya 1470
Ibn Majid Other Poems 1470
Ibn Al-Hijazi 1470
Josafa Barbaro 1471
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Asqalani 1471
Griffoen van Vlaanderen 1473
Athanasius Nikitin 1475
Ms in Italian 1475
al-Hanbali al-Dimashqi 1475
Jurjani 1477
Al Amsati al Hanafi 1478
Najm al-Din Umar ibn Fahd 1480
Ibn Dhuhairah 1483
Jacob Perez de Valencia 1484
Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami 1485
Firdevsi-i Tavil 1487
Zahirodin Marashi 1488
Pedro de Covilham 1490
Abd al Basit ibn Khalil 1490
Muslihuddin Mustafa 1491
Henricus Martellus 1491
Christopher Columbus 1492
Martin Behaim 1492
Piri Halife el-Hoyi 1493
Lu Rong 1494
Aayani 1494
Note on Africans in The Deccan
Ni'matnama 1495
Mirkhond 1495
Ibn al Dayba 1496
Al-Sakhawi 1497
Joannis Jovianni Pontani Opera 1497
Arnold von Harff 1498
Al-Barihi Al-Sukski Yemeni 1499
Fra Nicolo 1500
Muhammad ibn Da'ud Shadiyabadi 1500
Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah 1500
Alf layla wa layla 1500
Hikayat Seri Rama 1500
Babayla Mikael 1500
Hikayat Iskandar Dhu'l-Qarnayn 1500
Abd-el-Mo'al 1500
Aqquyunlu Album 1500
Sharif Amidi 1500
Sfar Malwasia 1500
Sirat Sayf ibn Dhi-Yazan 1500
Scribal note in Kebra Nagast 1500
Syrian manuscript 1500
Timurid Geodesy 1500
Zakariya al-Ansari 1500
Sira Sayyid Battal 1500
Tavarix I Ruz I Jum'a 1500
Hikayat Amir Hamzah 1500
Hikayat Bayan Budiman 1500
Abu Albaqqa 1500
Ibn al Sabbah 1500
Hamzanama 1500
Dhikr Kalam al-Nas 1500
Hosayn Wa'ez Kasefi 1500
Ibn Abd'essalam al-Menoufi 1500
Hadits Dou'l-Carnain 1500
Kitab Qissat al-muqaddam Ali al Zaybaq 1500
Luochong Lu 15th
Kitab i Dastan 15th
ibn Omar al-Tayyib Bafqih 1500
Oruc Beg Tarihi 1500
Annon.: The Marvels Found in the Great Cities 15th
Al-Bayhaqi 1501
Alberto Cantino 1502
Husayn Gazurgahi 1502
Suyuti 1505
Izz al-Din Abdul Aziz bin Omar Ibn Fahd al-Qurashi al-Makki 1516
Abu Makhrama 1521
History and Chronicles of the Main Towns
The Book of the Zanj
Kilwa Chronicle
Portuguese Description
Mombasa Chronicle
Mombasa Anecdotes
Portuguese Description
Mogadishu by Sharif Aydurus and by Fagih Ahmad ibn Fagih Abu Bakr
Mogadishu Coins and Sultans
Mogadishu Anecdotes
Portuguese Description
List Medieval Swahili Stone-towns
Somalia
Ras Hafun
Mogadicho
Ta-Rim (Gezira)
Markah
Barava
Djubb
Malavan (Bur Gao; Port Dunford)
Kenya
Tiung-Lji (Shungwaya)
Faza Ali (on Pate island)
Batta (Pate)
Kilimani
Lamuh
Shela
M-l-n-d-s (Manda ?)
Kitau (Kitao or Kitau)
Hudani (Ungwana)
Chika Bay (Ras Shaka)
Ras Kuluma (Ras Ngomeni)
Mambrui
Malindi
Gedi / Gede
Mundji Huzn
Kalfa (Kilifi)
Minwafa Bay (The Mtwapa estuary)
Mombasa
Vacini (Wasini island)
Tanzania
Hadra (Pemba)
El Banas (around Tanga)
Zanzibar (old Shangani in Stonetown)
Ras Minchar (Nungwi Mnarani and Fukuchani site)
Ras al-Hamam (Northern Cape of Tumbatu)
Machiia ((1)Muhembo or Kiungani (2)Saadani or Utondwe)
Maga (Mangapwani)
Mucavva (Chumbe Island)
Ras Vasfiia (Ras Mkita on Fumba peninsula )
Unguja Mkuu
Samakamand (Kizimkazi Mkunguni or Mtendeni)
Tohnet/Batyna (Kaole)
Sind (The 5 Sinda Islands)
Kafur Island (Fungu Kizimkazi or Latham Island)
Ras al Fil
Two Villages: Chali, Mulali
Kuvala (Kwale Island close to Kisiyu)
Charka/Ikuhadjunda (Koma island)
Vamlul, Famia, Reefs, Masiya, Mandji, Kilva (all North of Mafia)
Mafia
Vakula, Kilva-Buni, Chundju-Chundju, Hanach, Hanchan, Reef, Mountains of the North (all South of Mafia)
Kilwa
Vamizi (Songo Mnara)
Mozambique
Sindjadi or Bandar Darwis (The Quirimba Islands)
Mucanbidji (Mozambique island)
Malbaiuni (Mocambo)(or Cabaceira)
Dandama (Angoche)
A mountain that rises (Cockburn Mountain)
Moma
Sayuna (Quelimane)
Kuvama (Rio de Cuama now Zambezi)
Shallow Water (Between Kuvama and Sofala)
Sulanyat Reef
Sofala
Kilvani (Chiloane)
A port for all the winds (Mambone)
Satawah (Island of Macau or Singo and Nshawa)
Charbuh islands Vacika-Vaza (Bazaruta-Chibuene)
Rufati (also Bazaruto)
Malabati (Marivate)
Manarah or Qambara/Daghuta (Inhambane)
Zimbabwe Muna-batur (Butua)
Seychelles
Zarrin (Seychelles)
Munavvara (Farquhar atoll)
Comoros
Madagascar
List of Harbors Madagascar
Oral History NW Madagascar
Ras al Milh (Cap d’Ambre)
Sadah (Nosy Be)
Lulugan (Nosy Longany)
Manzalagi (Old Masselage)
Anamil (Kingany)
Bandar al Nuwab (Baly)
Malawin (North of Maintirano?)
Bandar Siban (Manambolo river mouth?)
Bandar Kuri (around Morombe)
Bandar Qasim (Sarodrano ???)
Bandar Hant (Linta Rivermouth)
Ras Hufa (?)
Bandar Bani Ismail (Antsiranana)
Bimaruh/Layrana (Vohemar)
Gazirat al Anbar (Nosy Boraha – St Marie)
Nasim (close to Fenoarivo Atsinanana)
Mankar (Ambodisiny)
Hadudah/Maqarah (Ambohabe)
Tira Raga (Mascarene islands)
Bandar Kus (south of Vangaindrano???)
Bandar Abyah (southwest of Fort Dauphin)
Extend of Swahili Trade
Yemen Sharma Al-Shihr
Kenya Nakuru- Hyrax Hill
Uganda Ntusi Munsa Kibiro
Congo Upemba Depression
Malawi Mankhamba
Zambia Kalundu Ingombe-Ilede
Zimbabwe Kadzi Tsindi
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The maps of Ptolemy did not survive. What is shown is a reconstruction I made using the coordinates from his book
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