to discuss these, we have contacted professor abdul sharif. he's a distinguished tanzanian scholar of history. he has also played a crucial role in preserving zanzibar's cultural heritage. now, professor, the first migration of muslims is a period in which ali muslims fly the persecution of the quraish tribe in the arabian peninsula into absenia or modern ethiopia. now, how did these migration impact on the spread of islamic culture in eastern africa? the facts that this was the first migration of muslims outside arabia, that becomes very significant because as far as zanzibar, the sahili coast, people like to claim that in fact the people, the muslims who came, they came to zanzibar rather than ethiopia, and i think this sometimes is sort of local beliefs, but there are claims here in zansbar itself. that that islam reached zanzibar before it reached medina, and there is even a mosque here which is said to have been built a very long time ago, which i think some of this might be over excitement about it, but but it shows really how how high i