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    Muslims’ presence in pre-Columbian America
    (university of Oum- El- Bouaghi, 2017) Zerara, Zina; Maameri, Fatima
    The Western world had always been in a stand where it rejected the influence of Muslims and Islam on its history to the point that it disregarded the Golden Age of the Islamic civilisation and denied Islamic science. The impact of Muslims on the early history of America is absolutely absent from the western canon. However, Muslims and Islam were a part of pre-Columbian America and had a great influence on it, even though it is controversial. Muslims were in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus; they were trading and marrying with the Natives. The most important thing is that Muslims did not ever try or intend to conquer or exploit the land or the people of America. Through using the historical descriptive and analytical approaches, this research explores the significant impact of Muslims and Africans on early American history, particularly the pre-Colombian era. It also conveys a more accurate framework about the Islamic and African contact with the Americas. In addition, it rejects the myth that Europeans and their descendants constructed world civilization without the influence of Muslims or Africans. This research concludes that Muslims from Spain and West Africa reached the Americas five hundred years before Columbus.