Pre-Columbian Muslims in the Americas By: Dr. Youssef Mroueh http://www.sunnah.org/history/ INTRODUCTION (Much) evidence suggests that Muslims from Spain and West Africa arrived to the Americas at least five centuries before Columbus. It is recorded, for example, that in the mid-tenth century, during the rule of the Umayyad Caliph Abdul-Rahman III (929-961 CE), Muslims of African origin sailed westward from the Spanish port of DELBA (Palos) into the "Ocean of darkness and fog". They returned after a long absence with much booty from a "strange and curious land". It is evident that people of Muslim origin are known to have accompanied Columbus and subsequent Spanish explorers to the New World. A: HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: 3. Columbus sailed from Palos (Delba), Spain. He was bound for GOMERA (Canary Islands). Gomera is an Arabic word meaning 'small firebrand' - there he fell in love with Beatriz BOBADILLA, daughter of the first captain general of the island (the f...
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