One of the earliest accounts of Islam's presence in North America dates to 1528, when a Moroccan slave, called Estevanico by his Spanish captors, was shipwrecked near present-day Galveston, Texas.[17] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-17> He and four survivors subsequently traveled through much of the American southwest and the Mexican interior before reaching Mexico City.
N. Brent Kennedy has speculated that during the period 1567-1587, Moors <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors> and Turks were brought to the present-day Carolinas, and that some of these intermarried with Native Americans, giving rise to the Melungeon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon> communities of Southern Appalachia. [18] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-18> Anthony Janszoon van Salee <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Janszoon_van_Salee>, a landholder and merchant of mixed Dutch-Moor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moor> descent who settled in New Netherlands <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherlands> (modern New England) in the 17th century, is widely considered to be the first documented Muslim in North America.[19] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-AV-19> [20] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-20> An early Egyptian immigrant is mentioned in the accounts of the Dutch settlers of the Catskill Mountains <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catskill_Mountains> and recorded in the 1884 *History of Greene County, New York*. According to this tradition, an Egyptian named "Norsereddin" settled in the Catskills in the vicinity of the Catskill Mountain House <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catskill_Mountain_House>. He befriended the Indian chief, Shandaken, and sought the hand of his daughter Lotowana in marriage. Rejected, he poisoned Lotowana and in consequence was caught and burned alive.[21] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-21>[22] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-22> American Revolution and onwards[edit <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_the_United_States&action=edit§ion=4> ] Records from the American Revolutionary War indicate that at least a few Muslims fought on the American side. Among the recorded names of American soldiers are "Peter Salem <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Salem>", "Yusuf ben Ali <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yusuf_ben_Ali&action=edit&redlink=1>" and "Bampett Muhamed <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bampett_Muhamed&action=edit&redlink=1> ".[23] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-23> - <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salem_Poor_stamp_1975.jpg> A 1975 postage stamp ofSalem Poor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Poor>, a war hero during the American Revolutionary War <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War>(Salem Poor's Muslim <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim>identity is less certain and based solely on the characteristics of his first name).[24] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-books.google.com.pk-24> - <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_death_of_general_warren_at_the_battle_of_bunker_hill.jpg> Peter Salem <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Salem> was a war hero during the American Revolutionary War (Peter Salem's Muslim identity is less certain and based solely on the characteristics of his attitude towards his slave name "Peter Buckminister").[24] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-books.google.com.pk-24> - <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_of_George_Washington_to_Mohammed_ben_Abdallah_in_appreciation_of_the_signature_of_the_Treaty_of_Peace_and_Friendship_signed_in_Marrakech_in_1787.jpg> Letter of George Washington <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington> toMohammed ben Abdallah <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_ben_Abdallah> in appreciation of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan%E2%80%93American_Treaty_of_Friendship>, signed in 1787. The first country to recognize the United States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> as an independent nation was the Sultanate of Morocco <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaouite_dynasty>, under its ruler Mohammed ben Abdallah <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_ben_Abdallah>, in the year 1777.[25] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-25> He maintained several correspondences with President George Washington <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington>. On 9 December 1805, President <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States> Thomas Jefferson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson> hosted an Iftar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iftar> dinner at the White House <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House> for his guest Sidi Soliman Mellimelli <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sidi_Soliman_Mellimelli&action=edit&redlink=1>, an envoy from Tunis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis>.[26] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-26> Bilali (Ben Ali) Muhammad <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilali_Document> was a Fula Muslim from Timbo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbo>, Futa-Jallon <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Futa-Jallon&action=edit&redlink=1>, in present-day Guinea-Conakry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea>, who arrived at Sapelo Island <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapelo_Island> during 1803. While enslaved, he became the religious leader and Imam for a slave community numbering approximately eighty Muslim men residing on his plantation. During the War of 1812 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812>, Muhammad and the eighty Muslim men under his leadership protected their master's Sapelo Island property from a British attack.[27] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-27> He is known to have fasted during the month of Ramadan, worn a fez and kaftan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaftan>, and observed the Muslim feasts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha>, in addition to consistently performing the five obligatory prayers.[28] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-28> In 1829, Bilali authored a thirteen-page Arabic *Risala* on Islamic beliefs and the rules for ablution, morning prayer, and the calls to prayer. Known as the Bilali Document <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilali_Document>, it is currently housed at the University of Georgia in Athens. Between 1785 and 1815, over a hundred American sailors were captive in Algiers for ransom. Several wrote captivity narratives of their experiences that gave most Americans their first view of the Middle East and Muslim ways, and newspapers often commented on them. The views were generally negative. Royall Tyler <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royall_Tyler> wrote *The Algerine Captive* (1797), an early American novel depicting the life of an American doctor employed in the slave trade who becomes himself enslaved by Barbary pirates. Finally Presidents Jefferson and Madison sent in the Navy to confront the pirates, and ended the threat in 1815 during the First Barbary War <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War>.[29] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-29>[30] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-30>[31] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-31> During the peace treaty that concluded the secession of hostilities, American envoys made it clear that the United States had no animosity towards any Muslim country. 19th century[edit <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_the_United_States&action=edit§ion=5> ] On the morning of April 4, 1865 during the American Civil War <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War>, Union troops led by Col. Thomas M. Johnston set ablaze the University of Alabama <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama>, a copy of the Quran <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran> known as the “The Koran: Commonly Called The Alcoran Of Mohammed.” was saved by one of the University's staff. [32] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-32> 292[33] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-33> Muslims are known to have fought during the civil war. The highest ranking Muslim officers during the civil war was Captain Moses Osman <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moses_Osman&action=edit&redlink=1> [34] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-34> and Nicholas Said <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_Said&action=edit&redlink=1>, formerly enslaved to an Arab master, came to the United States in 1860 where he found a teaching job in Detroit. In 1863, Said enlisted in the 55th Massachusetts Colored Regiment in the United States Army and rose to the rank of sergeant. He was later granted a transfer to a hospital department, where he gained some knowledge of medicine. His Army records state that he died in Brownsville, Tennessee in 1882.[35] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-talkingaboutislam.com-35> Another Muslim soldier from the Civil War was Max Hassan <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Hassan&action=edit&redlink=1>, an African who worked for the military as a porter.[36] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-36> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gertrudis_Serna_%26_Hadji_Ali.jpg> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gertrudis_Serna_%26_Hadji_Ali.jpg> Gertrudis Serna & Hadji Ali (Hi Jolly <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_Jolly>). A Muslim named Hajj Ali <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_Jolly> (commonly spelled as "Hi Jolly") was hired by the United States Cavalry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cavalry> in 1856 to raise camels in Arizona and California. He would later become a prospector in Arizona.[37] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-37>[38] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-38> Hajj Ali died in 1903.[35] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#cite_note-talkingaboutislam.com-35> During the American Civil war, the "scorched earth" policy of the North destroyed churches, farms, schools, libraries, colleges, and a great deal of other property. The libraries at the University of Alabama managed to save one book from the debris of their library buildings. On the morning of April 4, when Federal troops reached the campus with order to destroy the university, Andre Deloffre, a modern language professor and custodian of the library, appealed to the commanding officer to spare one of the finest libraries in the South. The officer, being sympathetic, sent a courier to Gen. Croxton at his headquarters in Tuscaloosa asking permission to save the Rotunda. The general's reply was no. The officer reportedly said, "I will save one volume as a memento of this occasion." 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