Back and front of marble frieze from a tomb in Kilwa (14th century). The marble was imported from Gujarat. The decoration is Hindu; so it might have originally belonged to a temple but the borders are inscribed with Koran verses. Gujarat marble was not only found in Kilwa (but also Mogadishu etc..) this shows the great influence of India.
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Hafiz Ibn Hajar al Asqalani (d1448) al - Durar al-Kamina
(a biographical dictionary of leading figures)
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Taken from: Poona Orientalist 1943
The following is taken from a brief account of Sultan Mahammad, son of Tughluq Shah (AD 1324-1351)

.......his father, who, a Turk by origin, was one of the slaves of the emperor of India, his predecessor. He gradually rose to such power and position that he became emperor, and considerably extended his empire which included Sind, Makran and Ma'bar , so that the Khutba was read in his name in Maqdsho, Sarandib and the whole Islamic India.

Note: this is one of a couple muslim books mentioning Mogadishu as part of India.
To prove that the Kilwa marbles are from Gujarat an example from Cambay-Gujarat: the cenotaph of Umar al Kazaruni d 1333 AD. And right the mihrab of the Fakhr al Din mosque in Mogadishu. On the pictures it is off course impossible to see that the stones used are the same; but it is easy to see that the design is very similar.
Taken from; Lambourn: Mogadishu, Kilwa and the Corpus of Cambay Marble carving ; Azania 1999

The Kilwa panel may be compared with the cenotaph of Umar al Kazaruni d. AD 1333 even the programme of Quranic inscriptions is identical. The Kilwa panels were probably made for a large cenotaph. These have been manufactured in Cambay from the late 12- hundreds on.

The niche of the Fakhr al Din mosque very closely resembles the mihrab (dated Dhu al Qadah 726AH Sept- Oct 1326) of Khalis atiq Umar al-Kazaruni the freed slave of Umar al Kazaruni in Cambay. The Lar mihrab (trading town of Lar in southern Iran) only differs from the Mogadishu one in that the outer frame is executed in a different kind of stone
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