Cultural and Civilizational Components Of Iranian World in East Africa

Iranians have had deep relations with different people of the world since long time ago. Due to this aspect and in order to promote the ancient culture and civilization of Iran they started to travel to dangerous areas in the then known world. These immigrations which we have faced during the history of Iran oftenly have had very successful results. Therefor since then there are traces of culture and cvilization of Iran in different parts of the world. Historical migration of some Shirazids to the coasts and islands of East Africa (around one thousand year ago) under the surveillence of one Iranian prince is one of the best travels for this purpose. These migrators who settled permanently in a vast area in some part of east and southern East Africa gradually established friendly relations with indigenous peoples and after sometimes publicized culture and civilization of Iran to some parts of then Tanzania, Kenya and Comore. In this article some components of Iranian civilization such as celebration of Nowruz, penetration of Persian words to Kiswahili Language, the prevalence of solar clendar, Iranian architecture style and ... which has been penetrated to the culture of East Africa permanently would be reviewed.