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Medieval Authors about East Africa
By Pieter Derideaux
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No Books have appeared on this subject for many years. This is strange as a number have appeared concerning West Africa. To fill this void I try making these texts available to everybody.
When using these texts; (in e.g. an article or website) please mention my name; I worked years on collecting - translating them. No commercial use allowed.

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Muslim World
Chinese Empire
Christian World
India (Muslim+Hindu)
South East Asian States
Neighboring African States
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Contents (5):
-Zare'a Ya'kob (1445)
-Inscription Surodakan (1447)
-Al Asqalani (d1448)
-Ibn Arabshah (1450)
-al-Abshihi (1450)
-Ibn Al Wardi (1456)
-Fra mauro (1459)
-Al Himyari (1461)
-Li Hsien (1461)
-Yingzong Shi Lu (1467)
-Abdurazzak (1470)
-Aliqult (1470)
-Ibn Husam (1470)
-Ahmad ibn Majid- Fawa'id (1470)
-Ahmad ibn Majid- Sufaliyya (1470)
-The East Coast N as seen by Ibn Madjid
-The East Coast S as seen by Ibn Madjid
-The Zanzibar Coast as seen by Ibn Madjid
-Ahmad ibn Majid- Hawiya (1470)
-Ahmad ibn Majid- Others (1470)
-Josafa Barbaro (1471)
-Athanasius Nikitin (1475)
-Najm al din al Misr (1480)
-Chinese painting of a Giraffe (1485)
-Pedro de Covilham (1490)
-Christopher Columbus (1492)
-Aayani (1495)
-Notes of Africans in Bengal and the Deccan
-Ni'matnama(1495)
-Fra Nicolo (15th century)
-Muhammad ibn Da'ud Shadiyabadi (15th)
-Hikayat M. Hanafiyyah (15th cent)
-Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus 2647 (15th)
-Alf Layla wa Layla (end 15th cent)
-Hikayat Seri Rama (15th cent)
-Chinese painting of a Giraffe (15th cent)
-Babayla Mikael (15th)
-Hikayat Iskandar Dhu'l-Qarnayn(15th)
-Abd al Moal (15th century?)
-Alberto Cantino (1502)
-Suyuti (d1505)
-Abu Makhrama (1521)


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"Sir John Henderson of Fordel, traveling in his youth through several parts of Asia and Africa from ye year 1618 to ye year 1628, was delivered into slavery by a Barbarian in Zanquebar on the coast of Africa. There a princess of that country falling in love with him, even to the renouncing of her religion and country, contrived the means of both their escape and getting aboard a ship trading up ye red sea landed at Alexandria where she died, whose picture John Henderson caused take with her black maid after their own country habit. From ye original picture at Oterston by W Frier, 1731."
A swahili couple 19th century
A man from Merka in 1848 by M. Guillain
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