8 many historians and men of letters from the coastal countries of the now Kenya and Tanzania approached me to write about the history of their region. Accordingly, when I decided to take this step, I took the initiative to contact the British Library in London in order to obtain a scanned copy of the aforementioned manuscript. I spared no effort in examining and carefully studying its contents together with everything else written about it by Arab and non-Arab historians. It was clear that many have been unable to understand or interpret much of this manuscript content. The confusion was clear in their writings. Careful and thorough examination has led me to the following observations: First, in spite of the fact that the author
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