While passing through Syria at the turn of the 13th century, the Andalusian traveler Ibn Jubayr noted that the Ghurabiyya Shi'a were among the Shi'a sects represented in Syria at that time [REF].
Furthermore, a document written around 1200 C.E. called "al-Maqama al Kilwiyya" discovered in Oman, gives details of a mission to reconvert Kilwa (an island in Tanzania) to Ibadism, as it had recently been affected by the Ghurabiyya doctrine from southern Iraq.