Columbus and Islam: A little needed history
Given the time of Columbus’ voyage in 1492, being pretty close to the end of the period where Spain managed to take its own country back from invading, conquering and perhaps unprecedentedly cruel occupation by the Muslims in that same year, it always seemed to me that the real purpose of the voyage was not geometry, or for a better tasting sandwich, but likely to find a way to keep trade with India going by circumnavigating Muslim territory.
Mohammad, as you may or may not know, started his religion by robbing trade caravans in the desert and funded his larger military adventures that way. So one can imagine the cost of trade across Muslim territory would be horrifically high. (Just a point of interest to those who think Trump’s tariffs are a historical level threat.) The cost in lost merchandise, costs of funding an expedition and the staff who then became dead or slaves was too much.
So likely Columbus was looking for a way to make the cost of trade cheaper.
Nice to have the record set straight on that.
Raymond Ibrahim is a first rate scholar on Islam.
Source: https://vladtepesblog.com/2025/10/27/columbus-and-islam-a-little-needed-history/
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