The Melungeons: Muslims in USA before Columbus After Spanish Inquisition

Posted on April 11, 2008 by moinansari

MUSLIMS IN AMERICA

Fromt he 7th Century inscriptions of Arabic on Nevada Rocks, to Islamorada in Florida, to the Meungeons of the Applachians, to the Morrish Architecture of Caliph-Haronia (California), Islam is present everywhere in America. One just needs to look.

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The Melungeons
Etymology of the term “Melungeon”. Kennedy (1994) writes that it derives from the Turkish melun can (from Arabic “mal`un jinn” ملعون جنّ) which means “damned soul”.

In Spain the Muslims were known as Mudajjan a word probably related to the term Melungeon. Ethnically, many of the Santa Elena colonists were Berber Muslims and Sephardic Jews, recruited by the Portuguese Captain Joao Pardo from the heavily Berber Galician Mountains of northern Portugal in 1567-less than one year before the Inquisition kicked into high gear against the Muslims.

When Santa Elena fell, its inhabitants-including its converted Jews and Muslims-escaped into the mountains of North Carolina. And there they survived, intermarrying to some degree with Native Americans, eventually merging with a second group arriving on American shores in, ironically, 1587, the same yr. Santa Elena fell.

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A 10th century Arab map showing America as Ard Majhoola

10th century Arab map showing America as the Unknown land Ard a Majhoola

The Melungeons: An Untold Story of Ethnic cleansing in America (B.Kennedy)

 This is an article from Islamic Horizons magazine Nov/Dec issue 1994.

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