(With my sincere apologies for cross-posting) I am intrigued by the content of this article. This is a topic to which I have never before been exposed, which perhaps reveals considerable parochialism on my part. My first response, then, was "What the heck?" Now I'm trying to decide whether to spend the money to access the article (I'm not a subscriber to the journal) because the topic just seems so fascinating. Am I the only one who isn't up on this?

 "Far Beyond the Western Sea of the Arabs...": Reinterpreting Claims
   about Pre-Columbian Muslims in the Americas

   Richard V. Francaviglia
   Terrae Incognitae, Vol. 46, No. 2: 103-138.
   http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288414Z.00000000033?ai=16h&ui=1yc&af=T


Jeff

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