Sampson Onwuka
If James Westfall, whose poor
knowledge of Ancient Egypt essentially manifested in context of his book and
whose knowledge of evolution of the sea power was seriously lacking and exposed
is his book, sympathized with Jews of being stripped of their property, and
then using lines such ‘conniving’ with Berbers, for people who were almost
reduced to slavery, seem to tell more about the individual than his sympathy
essential suggest. The author did not indicate that the people in question
called the Berbers, were the masters of the North Africa, that Berbers have
already removed much of Germanic tribes from Phoenician were they initiated
rested to parts of North Africa where they lived, that same people were in
liaison with arriving Seljuks from Turkey, all of whom more less formed the
bulk of the Germanic tribes. The author however mentioned that the arrival of
Muslims in 697 was led Musa, but did not indicate that Musa’s effort did not
pay off until the Berbers and a new brand of leaders, familiar with the sea
coast along the straights of Africa came in. It was not Musa who led the fight
against Rodrigo and his Germanic group, it was a certain Tarik the Great, or at
least a leader remembered for such incident that completely defeated Rodrigo
and the remnant of the Germanic tribes in 711.
The Visigoth’s defeat by Berbers
only ended in 711, they began almost immediately to penetrate and conquer all
of Spain, a case in point that unified successfully all of Spain in wake of
Rodrigo who albeit briefly succeeded in unifying the kingdom of Spain. The
route which some ridiculous history still speak in droves, explicit the depth
we owe the rest of the world and its culture. And then into South of France,
where they were halted occasional by Damascus Syria which was the seat of
Muslims all of world and which felt threatened by rising group and the force.
Musa himself was caught in between Damascus and his loyalty to the ‘brothers of
covenant’ in Spain under Tarik and Company, but he was removed eventually by
Damascus Caliphate who was concerned about the growing powers of these Africans
in Spain. (11) The reign of Muslims in the 7th century which is now taken as
solely the work of Arabs, began in earnest in the reign of Abu Bakr (632-634)
where a substantial period of the North East African began to collapse into
Islam.
I
shall indicate that a certain James Westfall Thompson was the first for the author to
indicate clearly that the Sinbad Saga was based on a story concerning two
‘Musulmen’ and what he means by two ‘musulmen’ as African Muslims, most of whom
are probable blacks. Stories about the travels of Ibn Batuta to deeper parts of
Asia and Europe, to a place such as Russian Kiev and as far the Black Sea makes
you wonder why Historians in one time decided to avoid America or the Vinland
which also appeared in the work of Ibn Batuta. Such interpretation and clarity
of the facts about the Vinland and ‘other worlds’, would easily the fight over
the discovery of America by some later explorers dealing and working in the
tradition of the Arab Chroniclers. When we speak of Arab Chronicles in the
light of what was left to history and in the light of how they represented the
views of the world and geography that was passed to them, we must not pretend
that these people were just established or organized by Islam what they were –
for instance, Journalist. The nature of the Chronicles which regards the
evolution of several society places were these Muslims and Islam ruled, involve
also the record of their years of exploration, especially sea exploration.
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