We learned in geography that it was the Italian explorer Christoph Columbus who discovered America in 1492.
The fact that Muslims arrived on the shores of America before Columbus 500 years ago, the geographer and the Muslim historian Masoudi mentioned in his book "Meadows of Gold and Metal of Essence" that a Muslim sailor named Syed al-Qurtubi sailed from the west coast of Andalusia in 889 and walked in a straight direction He arrived at a large beach and came back loaded with many treasures.
Muslims discovered the continent of America ChristophMassoudi also drew maps of areas in the Atlantic Ocean (west of the African and European continent) he named the unknown land.
In the book "North Africa and the Desert", quoting Al-Sharif Al-Idrisi (560 e), a special chapter in which eight Andalusian young men sailed from the shores of Western Andalusia in the fourth century AH, hoping to explore the sea of darkness, the ocean in the west, They met the king of the island and told him that they had gone out to explore the periphery of the ocean and convinced them of the impossibility of their project. They left east and walked for sixty days until they reached the port of Lisbon in western Andalusia.
The adventurers of these adventurers - cousins - were included in the investigations of Kratzkowski, and were verified in 1952 in the Department of Geography at the University of Whitewater.
In the book "Conditions of Islamic Education in America," Dr. Kamal Al-Nimr mentioned that some Muslim sailors set out from Andalusia (1150 AD) and settled on the shores of what is now known as "Brazil." There are also reports in Spain dated 1790 about Moroccan Muslims who migrated from Spain - Time of persecution - They settled in Southern California and Florida.
- To date, the Spanish Escorial Palace Library in Spain has a map of the eastern coast of the Americas showing the discovery of the new lands by Columbus several centuries ago.
Add to this in the Ottoman era that the Turkish captain Haji Ahmad (or Perry Al-Rayes as it is called in the West) drew in 1513 a stunning map of the coasts of the Americas while Columbus thought he had discovered India!
Christoph Columbus mentioned that he saw a Red Island (in his travels to America) ruled by an Arab man who called on Abu Abdullah. He also discovered that the people of San Salvador spoke some Arabic words with some distortion in pronunciation, That he saw in Honduras a Muslim black tribe called the title of Imam. In his personal memoirs, Columbus mentioned that he had seen a mosque in Cuba above a mountain, and that the weapons used by Haitians were the same as those used in Africa
- Columbus used his famous journey to guide Muslim Moroccans (who visited America before), and that the Spanish explorer Faramarcos Deniz used a Moroccan guide named "Esteban" killed by the Indians in 1539 in New Mexico! Before his collaboration with Deniz, Arabi Estephan (from the village of Azmour, adjacent to Casablanca) explored with three Florida Arabs for the Panfilodi Narviz campaign, then settled in Arizona and was among the first three individuals to cross the American continent.
- Columbus used his famous journey to guide Muslim Moroccans (who visited America before), and that the Spanish explorer Faramarcos Deniz used a Moroccan guide named "Esteban" killed by the Indians in 1539 in New Mexico! Before his collaboration with Deniz, Arabi Estephan (from the village of Azmour, adjacent to Casablanca) explored with three Florida Arabs for the Panfilodi Narviz campaign, then settled in Arizona and was among the first three individuals to cross the American continent.
"We understand that there were Muslims in the New World, descended from West Africa, and spread from the Caribbean to different parts of North and South America," said Winner, a professor of history at Harvard University. With the Indians of the Americas. Dr. Yusuf adds that many Islamic sources have talked about sea voyages in the Atlantic Ocean, such as Idrissi's book "Nozha al-Mushtaq in penetrating the horizons and paths of sight in the kingdoms of Amazar."
In his book "The Story of America," Barry Neal cited a lot of evidence (565 records) indicating the presence of Muslims in parts of America. Among these evidence are maps and Arab names such as Mecca (name of Indian tribe), Mona, Ahmed, Muhammad, Of customs and traditions that confirm the existence of contact between American Indians and Arab Muslims.
In his book "Coming Before Columbus", Even Sirtema cited a number of evidence of African access to America. It is not infrequent to cite the writings of the English orientalist De Lacy in his book "Arab thought and its place in the history of the West", where he mentioned the trips made by the Muslims in 1312, which are true stories compared to what the Muslims in that period of experience in navigation Navy, confirmed that there is no doubt of their arrival in America before Columbus.