If Muslims were to settle the Americas, using their technology (I know, I doubt it too), what would the required pilgrimage to Mecca effect on the colonization? Would it stop it from happening in the first place?
The Hajj was done by people who could afford to do it. The rest are usually satisfied with hearing about it.
If Muslims were to settle the Americas, using their technology (I know, I doubt it too)
do not forget [the] Dar al-Islam was on par with Christendom for a long time.
If you can keep southern Spain in Muslim hands, they will be some of the first to set foot on the New World.
It probably won't stop colonization, but the fact that the rich Muslims will be traveling back East from time to time might mean that Muslim colonies will be more integrated with the metropole than European colonies.
If Muslims were to settle the Americas, using their technology (I know, I doubt it too), what would the required pilgrimage to Mecca effect on the colonization? Would it stop it from happening in the first place?
I agree with most of the posters but would like to suggest that being able to call oneself Hajji may have an increased amount of prestige attached to it.
So you may find that it becomes an even greater status symbol for colonies so far away (as I believe was the case in the far eastern Muslim areas.)
I agree with most of the posters but would like to suggest that being able to call oneself Hajji may have an increased amount of prestige attached to it.
So you may find that it becomes an even greater status symbol for colonies so far away (as I believe was the case in the far eastern Muslim areas.)