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Research Notes

The working behind the articles — source scans, translation drafts, the cross-checks and the dead ends. This is how the conclusions get built.

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Note 01

Cerulli on the Kitab al-Zanj

Italian-to-English working translation with marginal disagreements flagged.

Note 02

Bughyat al-Amal — Hamrawen draft

Side-by-side Arabic and gloss, with the geed-xamar argument forming.

Note 03

aDNA on the Swahili coast

Marginalia on the genetic study and where it cuts against the Persian story.