Black Spirituality Religion : African Beginnings and Perspectives on Islam

Origin of the "Moors"

OmowaleX said:
The following is from "African Beginnings" by Olivia Vlahos.

"The Arabs came early to East Africa, and in the beginning, at least, they came in peace. They arrived in North Africa at a later date. And they came with the sword--the Sword of Islam."


The spread of Islam into north and west Africa was a process which took centuries to complete. The principal figure to successfully extend this conversion was none other than Abdallah ibn Yasin, founder of the Almoravid dynasty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Yasin

It was the followers of ibn Yasin, known as the Marabouts, who defeated the armies of Ghana, which fell under the sword in 1062.
 
Timbuctoo

OmowaleX said:
The spread of Islam into north and west Africa was a process which took centuries to complete. The principal figure to successfully extend this conversion was none other than Abdallah ibn Yasin, founder of the Almoravid dynasty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Yasin

It was the followers of ibn Yasin, known as the Marabouts, who defeated the armies of Ghana, which fell under the sword in 1062.

Timbuctoo began its rise to fame as a trading center not long after Ghana fell to the Almoravids. The vast trading empire and the shy, silent people who produced the gold were both in time inherited by Mali, the kingdom of the Mandingo people, by then enthusiastically converted to Islam. In 1324, Mansa Musa, the Mali king, made a pilgrimage to Mecca. So prodical was his largesse, so dazzling his displays of gold and exotica from the Sudan, that the Moslem woorld began to think of Black Africa as Mansa Musa's realm entire.

(Vlahos, p. 251)
 
The Empire of MALI

OmowaleX said:
Timbuctoo began its rise to fame as a trading center not long after Ghana fell to the Almoravids. The vast trading empire and the shy, silent people who produced the gold were both in time inherited by Mali, the kingdom of the Mandingo people, by then enthusiastically converted to Islam. In 1324, Mansa Musa, the Mali king, made a pilgrimage to Mecca. So prodical was his largesse, so dazzling his displays of gold and exotica from the Sudan, that the Moslem woorld began to think of Black Africa as Mansa Musa's realm entire.

(Vlahos, p. 251)

Mali territory had spread along with Mali's fame. Both Ghana and Tekrur had been annexed, and the Songhai kingdom--including its two chief river cities, Gao and Timbuctoo--had become a tributary. A century later the tributary swelled into the main stream, and Mali shrank to a brook.

(Vlahos, p. 252)
 
OmowaleX said:
Mali territory had spread along with Mali's fame. Both Ghana and Tekrur had been annexed, and the Songhai kingdom--including its two chief river cities, Gao and Timbuctoo--had become a tributary. A century later the tributary swelled into the main stream, and Mali shrank to a brook.

(Vlahos, p. 252)

Based upon MY OWN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, I have traced MY ANCESTRAL ROUTES on my Father's side through TWO maternal Ancestors with the names "Moses" and "Cissy". Both are "survivalisms" of the names Mossi and Cisse.

In modern terms, this is equated with Origins from Burkino faso, or what is historically known as the Mossi States, with specific origin from GHANA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossi_Kingdoms
 

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