HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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sub-Saharan Africa
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central Africa
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the east coast of Africa
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west Africa
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term ‘Madagascar’ seems to be of more recent derivation and may be a corruption of Mogadishu (Sutton 1990: 66). ‘Zenj’ was also the name given to the indigenous coastal dwellers of East Africa, whom al-Mas’udi describes as non-Muslims (Phillipson 1977: 157).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Zanj were Bantu-speaking people who had been forcibly taken from Southeast Africa and were enslaved primarily for agricultural labor as part of the plantation economy of southern Iraq.
Detailed explanation-3: -Zanj (Arabic: , adj. , Zanjī; Persian: , romanized: Zangi) was a name used by medieval Muslim geographers to refer to both a certain portion of Southeast Africa (primarily the Swahili Coast) and to its Bantu inhabitants.
Detailed explanation-4: -East Africa …they sailed Azania, or the Land of Zanj-by which they meant the land of the blacks and by which they knew it until the 10th century.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Zanj Empire was a 19th-century political formation established by the Omani sultanate on the Swahili Coast. Known for its slave-trading activities in conjunction with the local Swahili people, at its peak, the polity’s reach stretched as far as Eastern Congo.