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How the Moorish and Turkish Islamic ancestry influenced the mixed race Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe. AI-Generated.
The story of the Turkish and Moorish ancestry within the mixed race Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe begans with the story of the 200 Turks and Moors who were Muslims at the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In 1586, Sir Francis Drake brought these Muslim galley slaves, liberated from Spanish colonial forces in the Caribbean, to the Roanoke colony in present-day North Carolina. Historical records indicate that Drake had promised to return them to the Ottoman Empire, and about 100 of them were indeed repatriated. However, the fate of the remaining Muslims remains a mystery.
By William Penn Kurdskiy9 months ago in Families
The Qarsherskiyan Manichaen Sect, Qarsherskiyan Manichaeism and the beliefs of Qarsherskiyan Manichaens
In the 1950s, in a small village in southern China, a boy named Wei was born into a family with a hidden legacy. According to him, for generations, Wei's family had practiced Manichaeism, a ancient faith founded by Prophet Mani in the 3rd century AD. However, due to centuries of persecution, they had to conceal their beliefs, practicing their faith in secret.
By William Penn Kurdskiy11 months ago in Humans
Origins of the Qarsherskiyan People: Triracial Isolates, The history of the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe
The history of the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe is traced by some to the late 1400s during the era of Christopher Columbus, while others trace it back to the founding of Jamestown. Many trace it back to the first Muslims in North America. Starting around 1513, Spanish colonizers began bringing enslaved African Muslims to what is now Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and other parts of the USA that were formerly controlled by the Spanish empire. Mustafa Azemmouri, often called Estevanico, was sold into slavery in 1522 by the Portuguese. Spanish conquistador Andrés Dorantes de Carranza ended up keeping Estevanico enslaved, and Estevanico became one of the first Africans to step foot on North American soil. He explored Florida, the Gulf Coast, and even the American Southwestern deserts. The USA didn't even exist back then. Not even Jamestown had been founded yet. Estevanico would end up forming amazing relationships with Native American tribes in Texas, becoming a Medicine man, and even traveled so far as to see the Pacific Ocean, all before Jamestown had ever existed or been founded. An African Muslim man did all this and more long before the American ideology of manifest destiny carried Anglo-American settlers to the Pacific coast, as they hadn't even arrived to successfully colonize what would become USA. Islam has been part of the religious make-up of America since the first colonial settlers arrived in North America. African Muslims played key roles in the founding of the United States, mapping it's borders and fighting against British rule. Around 1 in 5 of all African people brought to the USA via the transatlantic slave trade were adherentd to Islam, and nearly all Black Americans who live today are descended from one of these African Muslims. One famous Black Muslim slave was Abdul Rahman Ibrahima. Abdul Rahman Ibrahima ibn Sori was a Fulani man born in West Africa in 1762. Ibrahima left Futa in 1774 to study in Timbuktu, Mali. He was kidnapped at the age of 26 in 1788 and sold to British slave traders stationed on the River Gambia. Ibrahima was eventually sold to Thomas Foster in Natchez, Mississippi, becoming first a field hand, then rose to become the plantation overseer. He was known as the “Prince among the Slaves.” As a young man, Ibrahima was a Prince and a captain of his father’s army. In 1794, Abdur Rahman married a woman named Isabella, having a large family, nine children, 5 sons and 4 daughters. Ibrahima was known for being a knowledgeable and devout Muslim. In 1828 Ibrahima raised 3,500 dollars touring the northeast and Cincinnati to free his family. In February 1829, Ibrahima and his wife sailed to Africa. Shortly after arriving in Liberia Abdur-Rahman got cholera and died six weeks later. The following year, Thomas Foster also died and his heirs sold 2 of Rahman’s children and 5 of his grandchildren to the American Colonization Society, which in turn reunited them with Isabella in Liberia. Ibrahima’s sons Lee, Simon, Simon’s wife Hannah, and their 5 children, Simon, Susan, Cresy, Nancy, and Hester all made it to Liberia. Omar Ibn Said was a Black Muslim and was born around 1770 in Futa Toro by the River Senegal. He was raised by his uncle after his father died when he was only 5 years old. He became a devout Muslim and made the Hajj pilgrimage to Mekkah. He went there on foot! Omar Ibn Said married and had a son before being abducted and sold into slavery in America when he was about 40 years old. Omar was enslaved for 56 years and wrote at least 15 surviving texts in Arabic, including letters, Islamic verses, and his autobiography. He died in 1864 and he was subsequently buried in Bladen County, North Carolina, USA during the time of the Confederate States. Omar Ibn Said became famous for writing in Arabic on the walls of his jail cell, which contradicted the belief that enslaved Africans were illiterate. His autobiography is the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic by an African while he was still enslaved in what would become the USA. Although it is said that ibn Said converted to Christianity on December 3, 1820, his conversion to Christianity was a cover-up, and there were devotional praises to Muhammad written in his Bible, and also a card dated 1857 on which he wrote Surat An-Nasr, a short surah (chapter in the Quran) which refers to the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam 'in multitudes.' The back of this card contains another person's handwriting in English misidentifying the surah as the Lord's Prayer and attesting to Omar's status as a "good Christian". While others writing on Omar's behalf identified him as a being a Christian, his autobiography and other writings offer more of an ambiguous position. In the autobiography, he still praises Muhammad; he references "Jesus the Messiah", the same way as the Quran's descriptions of Jesus (who is called المسيح 'the Messiah' 11 times in the Quran), and describing Jesus as 'our master' (سيدنا sayyidunā) employ the typical Islamic honorific for prophets and is not to be confused with Lord (ربّ rabb); description of Jesus as 'bringing grace and truth' (a reference to John 1:14) is equally appropriate to the conception of Jesus in Islam. It was most likely that he stayed a Muslim his whole life but was believed to have converted to Christianity by people at the time when he simply loved Jesus since he was considered a prophet in Islam. This was stated in his auto-biography. African Muslims helped the British and their colonies militarily expand West from the East Coast. During the a war called the French And Indian War, with "Indian" being a term referring to Indigenous Americans, the British and their American colonies had a war with New France, the French colonies in North America. The British succeeding in gaining control of territory the French formerly held, with different Native American tribes aligning with different sides. British Major-General Edward Braddock was defeated in 1755 at Fort Duquesne. The British had to retreat to the East, building a line of forts running North to South along the new battleground in what is now Huntington County, Pennsylvania. One of these forts, called Fort Shirley, had to be quickly abandoned. It wasn't abandoned before a Blacksmith made a small circular charm with the phrase "there is no God except Allah" on it in Arabic. This proves that Muslims served in the British military during the French And Indian War. Impressively, during the 1730s, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo wrote multiple copies of the Quran, which he had completely memorized, and wrote from memory! He used these for devotion and education.
By William Penn Kurdskiy11 months ago in Families
Aliyiyism and the Qarsherskiyans, the Tree Of Wisdom, and the Carolina Parakeet.
Aliyite Muslims are followers of a religious movement known as Al-'Aliyiyyah (العليئية) or the Aliyite Sufi Tariqa. Aliyiyism is a Sufi order that exists within the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam. The Aliyite Muslim sect originated at some point during the mid-eighteenth century in Nigeria, but the exact date and source of the movement beginning will likely forever remain unknown. Aliyite Islam started out as a mixture of Sufi Islamic beliefs and the belief in the Orishas of the Ìṣẹ̀ṣe religion of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The early Aliyites of what is now modern day Nigeria reinterpreted the role of the Orishas of the Ifa religion, understanding them to be Imams, Angels, Prophets, and Saints instead of being divine spirits of deities like followers of Ifa believe. The early Aliyites emphasized practicing the Islamic concept of tawheed, rejecting polytheism and idolatry and worshipping only one All Knowing and Divine God, the God of Abraham and Moses, called Allah or rarely called Olodunmare. As the Sokoto Caliphate, also known as the Mali Empire, taught a more strict interpretation of Islam to it's subjects, some Aliyites were sold into slavery in North America, where the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe has kept the Aliyite sect from going extinct, cutting ties from Sunni Islam and making Aliyite Islam a movement within Zaydiyyah, accepting the Zaydi Imams of Yemen and Tabaristan as well as accepting the Theological and Cosmological beliefs of Zaydi Shia Islam and accepting the Wilayat of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib, whom modern Aliyites usually believe is the same figure as Orisha Ogun, in the sense of a continuation of an ancient presence of an essence of Imam Ali, and not in the sense of a reincarnated being, which many Aliyites would consider contradictory to Islam and the Quran's teachings that all living creations of Allah shall taste death. The Prophet Jesus is believed by the Aliyites to be one with the Orisha Obatala, often called ObatAllah by the Aliyites, and the Aliyites also believe that Jesus's essence, or his soul, is also one with Imam Ali in the same way that Ali is one with Ogun. Some esoteric Aliyite interpretations teach that knowledge of the truth is this essence, which is passed down to every Zaydi Imam and continues to exist in the hearts of the believers. Today, the majority of the Aliyites are from the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe, a triracial ethnic group in the Eastern USA. There are also a number of conversions to Aliyite Islam which have occured in Brazil among former adherents to the Candomblé and Umbanda religions, as well as in Nigeria among some former adherents to the Ifa religion. There have also been a number of Lumbees and Melungeons who have became Aliyites, but there are not very many. The Qarsherskiyan Aliyite community emphasizes that Aliyite Islam is not an ethnoreligion and didn't originate among the Qarsherskiyan Tribe, and anyone can join the Aliyite faith and convert to Aliyiyism if they wish, and note that only around 40 to 50% of Qarsherskiyan people are Aliyite Muslims. The Qarsherskiyans and their ancestors in North America are the source of the Aliyite Sufi Tariqa becoming a Zaydi Shia Islamic Sufi Order instead of remaining within Sunni Islam, and it is likely that they learned about Zaydiyyah from a handful of Yemeni migrants in the USA who married into the Qarsherskiyan Aliyite community because they did not wish to marry non-Muslims and so they had limited available partners left in the area who met their desired criteria. Some Aliyites, mainly located in North America, hold a belief that Imam Ali came to North America during or before the time of Christopher Columbus and his voyages and first stepped foot on North American soil on top of a hill on the Lower Virginia Peninsula known as the Hill Of Wisdom. This is a solely oral tradition not based in any scriptures or religiously texts and the source of this is unknown. Some variants of this story claim he was carried down to the Hill Of Wisdom by an Angel, possibly Jibreel or Azrael, or another angel who may or may not be known, depending on which version of the story is being told. Another popular version claims Imam Ali sailed to North America himself on a ship and trotted up the shallow headwaters of a river or creek in the Poquoson River Basin until he reached the base of the Hill Of Wisdom next to a marshy section of the water body, and so he stepped out of water onto the dry land of North America on this hill. Sometime after this event, a seed from a gumball tree, more commonly called American Sweetgum, is said to have been planted on Hill Of Wisdom overlooking the water. It is not known if this was instantly after or hundreds of years later. The tree that grew from this seed is called the Tree Of Wisdom and marks the sacred location and is highly revered by some Aliyites who believe the oral traditions of Imam Ali visiting North America. The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe considers it a sacred symbol of cultural heritage, and many non-Muslims from the tribe visit the tree on the hill, which is at a highly gaurded and secret, undisclosed location somewhere on the Virginia Peninsula and not easy to get to. The tree is consideded to be a shrine of Imam Ali, Jesus, Obatala, and Ogun, who are all believed to be one continuos essence that God has allowed to inhabit the Earth as human beings throughout time. Aliyites pray to God while at the site of the tree on the hill overlooking the bald cypress swamps, and often hang banners, flags, and notes on the tree which are later removed by Qarsherskiyan Tribal leaders to avoid littering and to make the tree blend in with nature and not be noticed by illegal poachers who unknowingly prowl the area. The location of the tree of wisdom and the hill of wisdom on the Virginia Peninsula are top secret and nobody is allowed to publicly disclose where they are. Some Aliyite Muslims at the shrine have reported seeing Carolina Parakeets at the site of the Tree Of Wisdom. The Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) is believed to be sacred by some Aliyites who believe the oral stories of Imam Ali visiting North America, although not all Aliyites believe this. The Carolina Parakeet is said to have copied sermons from Imam Ali, utilizing it's stunning ability to mimic human speech to fly around eastern North America, intentionally or unintentionally spreading the Dawah (preaching of the Imam) to various hard-to-reach and far away tribes, causing a few Native Americans to have allegedly heard these calls and converted to Islam. All Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people, regardless of their religions, consider the Carolina Parakeet to be a sacred symbol of the Qarsherskiyan Tribe deeply rooted in folklore and traditions and highly beloved, sometimes even venerated by a few individuals. The Carolina Parakeet is believed to have gone extinct in the early 20th century, but unverified sightings in Florida, the Santee River area of South Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina, and on the Northern part of the lower Virginia Peninsula, have contiued to occur in clusters of frequency ever since, with a few scattered sightings reported all across the Eastern USA and Southeastern Canada.
By William Penn Kurdskiyabout a year ago in Humans
Who are the Sweetgum Kriyul people? What are the thirteen main Sweetgum Kriyul tribes?. AI-Generated.
The Sweetgum Kriyul tribes are a collection of over thirteen triracial isolate communities in the Eastern United States. Sweetgum Kriyul people have a mixed ancestry of European Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans. These communities have historically been isolated from mainstream society, and their unique cultural identities have developed as a result of their mixed heritage.
By William Penn Kurdskiyabout a year ago in Humans
What are the 13 main Sweetgum Kriyul tribes?
Brass Ankles of South Carolina: The Brass Ankles of South Carolina, also called the Brass Ankles, are one of the 13 main Sweetgum Kriyul tribes. Sweetgum Kriyul refers to a broad range of different Tri-Racial Isolate Communities (TRIC) in Eastern North America. They have, as usual with Sweetgum Kriyul people, a unique mix of mostly White, Black, and Indigenous American ancestry. They're primarily located in the lowlands of South Carolina.
By William Penn Kurdskiyabout a year ago in Humans
The Islamic sect you likely never knew, that is mostly followed by a forgotten race in North America . AI-Generated.
Perhaps you've heard of Islam, one of the major world religions, an abrahamic religion with nearly 2 billion adherents around the globe. From Morocco to Indonesia and from Kenya to Bosnia and Herzegovina there are many different Muslim countries with people from all different races being Muslims. Black Muslim majority countries such as Senegal in West Africa and Somalia in East Africa exist. Asian Muslim countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei also exist, as well as South Asian Muslim countries like Bangladesh and the Maldives, and Central Asian Muslim countries exist such as Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. There's obviously Middle Eastern Muslim countries like Syria and Yemen, as we as European Muslim countries like Kosovo, Bosnia, Northern Cyprus, Turkiye, and Albania. Large Islamic ethnic groups like the Pomaks and Indo-Muslims of Suriname exist in places many wouldn't consider to be Islamic such as South American rainforests and Europe. Tatars existed for centuries as a Muslim majority ethnic group in Russia and Ukraine and with a presence in Poland too. Muslims ruled Spain and Portugal for hundreds of years and sparked the renaissance in Europe. But did you know that there are Muslim majority places in North America? You probably knew about the Sufi shrine in Pennsylvania, the Muslim majority city of Hamtramck, the Islamic strongholds of Dearborn and Detroit, and perhaps even about the Muslim cities founded in New York for American Muslims. But have you ever heard of the Aliyites? What are the Aliyites and what do Aliyites believe? Who are these unknown Muslims? Are they heretics? The Aliyite Muslims are part of a small Sufi movement within Zaydi Shia Islam. Some prominent Zaydi Muslim scholars were Sufis, but most throughout history were not. Many more recent Yemeni Zaydis even attacked Sufism because of the Arab nationalist movement and clashes with the Ottoman Turkish expansion in Yemen. Aliyites are a Sufi order within Zaydi Shia Islam, called Al-'Aliyiyyah (Arabic: العليئية). There are possibly two million Aliyites around the world, but many have to hide their beliefs due to persecution by Salafi Sunni Muslims and the Deobandi Muslims in Afghanistan and South Asia. Aliyite Muslims believe in all the Zaydi Imams that Zaydis in Yemen believe in, until up the 1990s, at which point, many Aliyites accept a Zaydi Sufi teacher as an Imam. His name was Imam Razvi and he was a Zaydi Shia, Sufi, and scholar who was born in Bihar, India and lived and died teaching Sufism within Zaydiyyah while in Germany. After him, many Aliyites believe another Imam succeeded him, but it isn't official yet. The Aliyites that aren't hiding their identity due to fear of persecution are mostly in North America, where the Aliyite Muslims are very powerful and rapidly growing in numbers, but mostly underground. Many Sweetgum Kriyul people are Aliyites, especially from the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe. The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe is heavily culturally influenced by the Aliyite belief to the point where Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people and Aliyite Islam are nearly synonymous. Ethnic Qarsherskiyans are the largest but least researched Sweetgum Kriyul tribe. Of the 1 to 2 million Sweetgum Kriyul people in North America, nearly half are Ethnic Qarsherskiyans. There are 400,000 to 1,000,000 Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people in Eastern USA, and the majority of the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people who identify as Ethnic Qarsherskiyan instead of just mixed race are proud Aliyite Muslims. The Aliyite Islamic influence over even non-Muslims from the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe is deep and profound. Aliyite Muslims lead the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe. Many Aliyites in North America believe that the soul of Jesus is shared with Imam Ali, but not in reincarnation, as they reject reincarnation. Many also believe that Orisha Ogun wasn't a god, but was an Islamic Imam, whose message has been distorted over time and who has been deified by the misguided people. They believe Orishas were real and were Angels, Imams, Prophets, Saints, and Scholars. Many Aliyites believe in the oneness of Imam Ali with Orisha Ogun. Plenty of Aliyites in North America also believe that Imam Ali came to North America before Columbus and taught Islam to some Native Americans with help from Carolina Parakeets who were winged Islamic messengers that copied Imam Ali and repeated his message.
By William Penn Kurdskiyabout a year ago in Humans
Who are Lumbees and other Sweetgum Kriyul people?
On the evening of January 18, 1958, a hundred members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered in Maxton, North Carolina for a rally. They had advertised that their planned marching, speechifying, and cross burning would terrorize and teach respect to the local community of Sweetgum Kriyul people, specifically the Lumbee tribe, in Robeson County, North Carolina. Apparently, the locals were "forgetting their place." One Lumbee woman had been dating a White man, and a Lumbee family had moved into a White neighborhood. The Klan had already burned crosses at each of those two homes, and so the large rally was meant to drive the lesson home countywide. The Klansmen began assembling at 8:00 P.M., shotguns in hand. The Grand Vizier strutted about in full regalia. A huge KKK banner was unfurled. A public address system with a microphone was set up. Newspaper reporters and photographers scurried for photo-ops. The Klansmen ignored the 500 or so Sweetgum Kriyul men, mostly of the Lumbee tribe, who had gathered across the road, also carrying rifles and shotguns. At a signal, the Lumbee tribesmen fanned out across the highway, shouting war cries and shooting into the air. The Klansmen dropped their weapons, flags, robes, and hoods, jumping into their vehicles and fleeing the scene, leaving their paraphernalia strewn everywhere. They had not yet set fire to their cross. The state police arrived within minutes, escorted the fleeing Klansmen to safety, and disarmed the Lumbee men. Despite thousands of shots fired, no one had been hurt. The only person arrested was a Klansman who was too drunk to stand. The Lumbees then put on a show for the press, marching around the field of battle, wrapped themselves in the KKK flag, hollered into the microphone, burned the cross, hanged an effigy of the Grand Wizard, and a rousing good time was had by all. The next day, newspapers across the nation ran wild with the story. "The Klan had taken on too many Indians," said Life Magazine. "Look who's biting the dust, palefaces!" wrote columnist Inez Robb. That the Indians had finally defeated the palefaces in Robeson County, North Carolina in January of 1958 was the most hilarious story of the week nationwide. But wait just a minute...! Are the Lumbees really Native Americans, or "Indians," as they were called? By 2010, still, nobody had published an admixture study of the Lumbees since the decoding of the human genome made admixture mapping reliable and consistent. But an older study used blood proteins and skull measurements. That study found that the Lumbees were about 40% European, 47% African, and 13% Native American. The Lumbees call themselves Native American, Indians, or whatever they wish of course. They have worked hard to be seen as Native Americans, and some even deny their African ancestry. The North Carolina legislature formally designated them Lumbee Indians and 1953. The U.S. Congress officially designated them Lumbee Indians of North Carolina on June 7 1956. And yet, according to the census, there were zero American Indians/Indigenous people in Robeson County in 1950 although there were 30,000 "Mulattos." In the 1960 census, after legislation, Robeson County's 30k mulatto people vanished and 30,000 Lumbees suddenly appeared. The Mulatto Croatans had become the Lumbee Indians. The Lumbees' self-reinvention has not been a complete succes. The Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs refuses to recognize them. Genetically, they are a typical Sweetgum Kriyul group. Many Sweetgum Kriyul communities like the Lumbees are scattered throughout the southeastern and eastern United States. They are called the anthropological term tri-racial isolates, historical term Maroons, or sociological term Mestizos. All descended from Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans who escaped and involuntary labor in colonial plantations and formed their own communities on the fringes of civilization. In 1946, William Gilbert published the first survey of some of these groups in the Southern and Eastern United States of America. They are complex mixtures in varying degrees of White, Native American, and Black genetics. The Brass Ankles of South Carolina, Lumbee, Chestnut Ridge People, Melungeons, Carmel Indians of Ohio, Ethnic Qarsherskiyans, and others are included as being Sweetgum Kriyul people. Many of these names originally started out as derogatory slurs and have been or are in the process of being taken back by the community and given a positive light. The two largest Sweetgum Kriyul tribes according to a 2009 survey are the Ethnic Qarsherskiyans and the Melungeons. The Melungeons of the Cumberland Plateau are one of the largest mixed race communities to have self-identified as White to protect themselves from persecution and discrimination against minorities over the centuries. During the Jim Crow Era, many members of the Melungeon tribe denied having even the slightest amount of Black DNA. Many Sweetgum Kriyul tribes and individuals identify with whatever race they most resemble, and are disconnected to their heritage. Elvis Presley was a Melungeon, but many don't know. John James Audubon was a proto-Qarsherskiyan, one of the mixed raced individuals whose descendants went on to become the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe, which includes Alexander Hamilton who was mixed and descended partially from French Huguenots.
By William Penn Kurdskiyabout a year ago in Humans
About some of America's lost tri-racial isolated tribes, the Sweetgum Kriyul peoples
The Lost Tribes of America: Sweetgum Kriyul people In the heart of Eastern North America, vibrant Creole cultures thrives, shaped by the blending of diverse traditions and ancestries. The Sweetgum Kriyul peoples, a Creole group of rare tri-racial isolate tribes, are a testament to the resilience and creativity of Creole communities.
By William Penn Kurdskiyabout a year ago in Humans
