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The First Muslims in the Americas

Possible pre-Columbian expeditions.

See also: Michael Gomez, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Image source: Muhammad al-Idrisi, 1154, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Al-Idrisi%27s_world_map.JPG

The First Muslims in the Americas

Participants in Spanish conquest, such as the (possibly legendary) Estevanico, or Stephen the Moor.

See also: Leslie B. Rout, Jr., The African Experience in Spanish America (Markus Wiener Publishers, 2003).

Image source: The Estevanico Society, http://www.estevanico.org

The First Muslims in the Americas

Enslaved Africans, such as Omar ibn Sayyid, born in Futa Toro, now in Senegal, in 1770; enslaved in 1807; lived 1810-1864 in North Carolina, where he wrote his memoirs in Arabic.

See also: Sylviane Diouf, Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (New York University Press, 1998).

Image source: http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SlaveTrade/collection/large/I017.JPG

Arab Migration to the Americas, 19th and early 20th centuries

Mainly Christian emigration from Ottoman “Greater Syria” (including today’s Israel/ Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria) throughout the Americas.

See also: Akram Fouad Khater, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 (University of California Press, 2001).

Image source: La Sociedad Siriana, 1906, Uruguay, http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/58353F85-7C05-4023-8F9B-F8B847DCD283.htm

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