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The “discovery” of the Americas by Christopher Columbus is a euro-imperialist myth and was part of the Reconquista, which was fueled by the the hunt for the Moor (in Europe, in Africa and across the Atlantic).
It is the same old Eurocentric tactic, which was used in Africa and in the Americas during the so-called Age of Exploration.
European explorers and “discoverers” used their money and connections in order to :
1. Gain invaluable information from Muslims (Arabs or others like Berbers or West Africans);
2. Recruit Muslim guides and personnel ;
3. Use sea and trade routes as well as maps created by Muslims.
4. Silence the collaboration with Muslims.
This tactic enabled European explorers to stand at the center of the story while ignoring the inputs and contributions of Muslims.
Here is an interesting link.
LUISA ISABEL ÁLVAREZ DE TOLEDO, 21ST DUCHESS OF MEDINA SIDONIA
https://www.andalucia.com/province/cadiz/sanlucar/casa-medina-sidonia.htm
Luisa Isabel María del Carmen Cristina Rosalía Joaquina Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, Isabel to her friends, was the 21st Duchess of Medina-Sidonia, one of the oldest aristocratic families in Spain
Isabel discovered documents in the archive which convinced her that America was discovered a long time before Columbus by Arab-Andalusian or Moroccan sailors who traded with ports in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela.
Plants indigenous to the Americas, such as maize and peppers, were referred to in the archive well before 1492, as were rivers and coasts that could not be identified in Europe or Africa.
She even painstakingly calculated that the huge number of horses and cattle already grazing the plains of Argentina when the Spanish established a permanent colony in Buenos Aires could not possibly have all descended from the twenty or thirty beasts left behind by the first group of European settlers forty years earlier.
She published her findings in No fuimos nosotros (It wasn't us) in 1992, coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the New World, and in África versus América: La Fuerza del Paradigma in 2000. This made her very popular with the Islamic community in Spain, and the books were translated into Arabic by the Junta Islámica de España.
The date of Columbus' voyage - 1492 - was the same year identified in Spanish history as the completion of the Christian "reconquest" when the Moors were finally driven out of their last stronghold at Granada. Did they then, as Isabel suggested, extend the Reconquista to the American continent and extinguish all traces of Islam there too?
https://www.quora.com/Did-a-Muslim-guide-Christopher-Columbus-to-North-America
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