The history of the discovery of the Americas, known as the New World, has been the subject of much controversy. For example, our great compatriot Beruni predicted that there was an unknown place in the west, but the scientist was not there, and his information was not proven.
Modern geography acknowledges that the American continent was discovered by Christopher Columbus. But before that, Muslim researchers came here.
Muslims came to America for four reasons: for the first time as researchers; then to get rid of the Spanish Inquisition; They came during the African occupation and finally during the height of immigration in the 70s. Others have historical evidence for the first reason. But the arrival of Muslim researchers in America 180 years before Columbus is news to many.
In 1312, Muslims from Mali and other parts of West Africa arrived on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. They travel along the Mississippi River to explore America.
Christopher Columbus, who set foot in the New World in 1492, was greatly influenced by the geographical discoveries of the XNUMXth-century Arab scholar Abu Abdullah Sharif Idrisi. Idriss was an adviser to Roger II, King of Sicily. Columbus had a copy of the scholar's book in which he mentioned the discovery of a new continent by eight Muslims. There were also Muslims on the Columbus ship, who were mainly interpreters.
On Columbus's first voyage, he was accompanied by two Muslim captains, Martin Alonso Pinzon and Vicente Janex Pinzon. These wealthy men helped to equip and repair the Columbus ship. The Pinzons were descended from Abuzayan Muhammad III, king of Morocco, who belonged to the Marini dynasty.
On October 1492, 21, Columbus wrote in his diary that he saw a mosque built on high mountains near the island of Gibar in northeastern Cuba. Later, the ruins of mosques and minarets with Qur'anic verses were found on the walls of Cuba, Mexico, Texas, and Nevada.
According to Dr. Barry Fell in The Legend of America, people in southwestern Pima County, Arizona, have a dictionary of Arabic words. The rock in California has the Arabic inscription "Isa ibn Maryam." Ruins of madrassas have been found in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.
Arif Tolib
oriftolib.uz
2011
Published in the October 2011 issue of Hidoyat magazine.
