Muslims have never been strangers to this country, contrary to the skewed perception of many Americans.In 1528 — nearly a century before English colonists arrived in Jamestown and the Mayflower dropped anchor in Cape Cod — Mustafa Zemmouri, a Muslim Moroccan, also known as Estebanico or Estevanico, set foot on what is now the United States.The enslaved, Arabic-speaking explorer, whose last name is also written Azemmouri, walked across the American South, Southwest and into Mexico, serving as a translator and cultural mediator between the Indigenous communities and the Spaniards he traveled with.Zemmouri, who may have been killed by the Zuni...
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