Muslims First Journey To America
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Introduction
| History of Islam In America | |
|---|---|
| The Beginnings | 1312–1600 |
| Native Americans and Islam | 1300–1900 |
| Muslims First Journey To America | 1312 CE (711 AH) |
| Christopher Columbus | 1492 CE (897 AH) |
| Estevanico | 1538 CE (944 AH) |
| Slavery in the Americas | 1538 CE (944 AH) |
| Melungeons | 1600 CE (1008 AH) |
| Blackamoor | 1639 CE (1048 AH) |
| Islam In America 18th Century | 1700–1799 |
| Mahomet Weyonomon | 1708 CE (1119 AH) |
| Lamine Jay | 1730 CE (1142 AH) |
| Job Ben Solomon Jallo | 1730 CE (1142 AH) |
| Abel Conder | 1753 CE (1166 AH) |
| Kunta Kinte | 1767 CE (1180 AH) |
| Runaway Slaves | 1769–1790 |
| Peter Saleem | 1775 CE (1188 AH) |
| Ibrahim Abd ar-Rahman | 1788 CE (1202 AH) |
| Yusef Ben Ali | 1790 CE (1204 AH) |
| Islam In America 19th Century | 1800–1899 |
| Salih Bilali | 1803 CE (1217 AH) |
| Yarrow Mamout | 1807 CE (1221 AH) |
| Abraham of the Micanopy Indian Tribe | 1812 CE (1226 AH) |
| Umar ibn Said | 1770–1864 |
| Lamine Kebe | 1835 CE (1250 AH) |
| Islam In America 20th Century | 1900–1999 |
| Islam In America 21st Century | 2000–Present |
There are numerous historical written accounts of Muslims from Africa and from Spain travelling to lands across the Atlantic Ocean as part of geographical explorations from as early as 889 CE (275 AH). At this period Muslims dominated the sea routes, and were experienced ship builders[citation needed]
[edit] Khashkash from Cortobas exploration
A Muslim historian and geographer Abu Hassan Ali ibn Al-Hussain al-Masudi 871 CE (257 AH) - 957 CE (345 AH) wrote in his book Muruj adh-dhahab wa maadin aljawhar (The meadows of gold and quarries of jewels) that during the rule of the Muslim caliph of Al-Andalus Abdullah Ibn Mohammad, a Muslim navigator, Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Cortoba, Spain sailed from Delba (Palos) in 889 CE (275 AH), crossed the Atlantic, reached an unknown territory (ard majhoola) and returned with fabulous treasures. In Al-Masudi's map of the world there is a large area in the ocean of darkness and fog which he referred to as the unknown territory [1]
[edit] Sultan of Mali exploration
There are two accounts confirming the sultans exploration to a large land mass found whilst crossing the atlantic.
- In his book Massaalik al-absaar fi mamaalik al-amsaar(the pathway of sight in the provinces of the kingdoms) the Muslim Historian Chihab Ad-Dine Abu Abbas Ahmad bin Fadhl al Umari (1300 CE (699 AH) - 1384 CE (785 AH)) describes in detail the geographical exploration on the other side of the atlantic by the Sultan of Mali Abu Bakari I [2]
- Sultan Mansu Musa 1312 CE (711 AH) - 1337 CE (737 AH) was the Mandinka monarch of the West African Islamic empire of Mali. While travelling to Makkah on his famous Hajj in 1324 CE (723 AH) , he informed the scholars of the Mamluk Bahri sultan court An-Nasir Nasir Edin Muhammad III 1309 CE (708 AH) - 1340 CE (740 AH) in Cairo, that his brother, sultan Abu Bakari I 1285 CE (683 AH) - 1312 CE (711 AH) had undertaken two expeditions into the Atlantic Ocean. When the sultan did not return to Timbuktu from the second voyage of 1311 CE (710 AH), Mansa Musa became sultan of the empire. [3]
[edit] References
- ↑ AGHA HAKIM, AL-MIRZA Riyaadh Al-Ulama(Arabic),Vol.2 P.386/Vol.4 P.175
- ↑ AL-ASFAHANI, AR-RAGHIB Adharea Ila Makarim Ash-Shia,Vol.16,P.343
- ↑ CAUVET, GILES Les Berbers de L'Amerique,Paris 1912,P.100-101
- pre-Columbian Muslims in the Americas - Dr Youssef Mroueh
- www.muslimsinamerica.org
- [Muslims in America - Seven Centuries of History 1312-2000 Amir Nashid Ali Muhammad ISBN 0-915957-75-2]
