732 AH
Approximate date
Ibn Battuta calls Kilwa one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Its Muslim sultans grow rich shipping gold from Zimbabwe across the Indian Ocean.
How it touches Islam Swahili, the language of the coast, is full of Arabic words carried by Muslim traders and sailors.
Source: History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
