Wednesday, December 07, 2005

the pre-columbian presence of muslim africans

From Hot Coals (a new blog I found about recently and I'm getting into): THE PRE-COLUMBIAN PRESENCE OF MUSLIM AFRICANS IN AMERICA IS NO MYTH! by Imām Al-Hājj Tālib ‘Abdur-Rashīd. It is an interesting contribution to an ongoing historical debate about what was going on this side of the pond before Columbus.

2 comments:

Leila M. said...

I remember a small mention of the subject in the "Lies my teacher told me" book. I wish it had delved a bit further into the subject

Abdul-Halim V. said...

Yes, actually there are a couple of other past Grenada entries about the same subject. There are even those who say that Chinese Muslims travelled to the Americas before Columbus. Interesting stuff.