Too few people know that for 500 years Muslims were integrating and living peacefully in the Americas before Columbus arrived. #ColumbusDay
— Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 8, 2012
Great Muslim historian Al Masudi (871-957CE) book “The meadows of gold and quarries of jewels” records ‘American Islam’ #ColumbusDay — Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 8, 2012
During the rule of the Spanish Muslim Caliph, Abdullah Ibn Muhammad (888-912CE), Muslim navigators were coming to the Americas #ColumbusDay
— Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 8, 2012
Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sails from Spain in 889CE across the Atlantic, to ‘Ard Majhoola’ (the unknown territory). #ColumbusDay — Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 8, 2012
In Abdul Rahman III’s rule (929-961), African Muslims left Delba, Spain crossing the Atlantic – an “ocean of darkness and fog” #ColumbusDay
— Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 8, 2012
In Al Masudi’s world map the Americas are a land area across the ‘ocean of darkness and fog’ called the ‘unknown territory’ #ColumbusDay — Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 8, 2012
For the record, Muslims inhabited the #Americas centuries before it was colonised by European settlers. Real history. #ColumbusDay
— Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 8, 2012
@SimonNRicketts "Discovered" sometime after Muslims had been sailing there, trading and intermarrying, 500 yrs before Columbus arrived.
— Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) August 2, 2014
@digwithit @SimonNRicketts I had the benefit of learning history, as told by white professors in the West, and then learning real history 😉
— Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) August 2, 2014
