Kilwa Sultanate

The Kilwa Sultanate was a sultanate. The sultanate had land in the entire Swahili Coast at its height. Its legend says that the Kilwa Sultanate was founded in the 10th century by Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi,شاكر مصطفى, موسوعة دوال العالم الأسلامي ورجالها الجزء الثالث, (دار العلم للملايين: 1993), p.1360 a Persian prince of Shiraz.James Hastings, Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Part 24, (Kessinger Publishing: 2003), p.847

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Swahili people

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