As illustration only; this map of an old German book of Meissner
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a letter of Salma b. Muslim al-Awtabi:in The Kilwa Sira: (+1116) from Oman
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Taken from:  J.C. Wilkinson: African Historical Studies 1981

The Kilwa Sira consists of two documents of which this one is the first. The second one dates from 1200.

Basically it is an Ibadi polemic addressed to two brothers from Kilwa being Ali b. Ali and al-Hasan b. Ali. Except of the polemic there is only this address to the two brothers: We have heard that you have become tashdid fi'l-din (this maybe means that they were actively propagating Ibadism.)
Copper coins of 2cm diameter witht he name of Ali bin al-Hasan (first sultan of Kilwa) 11th century
Some archaeological finds from Kilwa. On top an inscription found in a tomb from the 18th century. The inscription gives us the information that the family burried there was from Malindi.  
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