Before Columbus, Arab-African People Explore America?

The information was confirmed by Western historians and Africa.

Dream - According to a new documentary. Andalusian Arabs and Africans from Mali said to be one of the first explorers who discovered the Americas, about 180 years before Columbus arrived there.

The documentary is part of the opening of the Conference and Exhibition of the International Higher Education by the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia Azzam Al-Dakhil on Wednesday at the University of Taibah, Medina.

Khaled Abul Khair, university officials, said the material for the film collected more than two and a half years of specialized research centers such as the Center for the Study Andalus, Morocco, Sao Paulo University in Brazil, the Federal University of Bahia, Duchess Luisa Isabel Alvarez Archive in Spain, and agencies research in Mali.

The film director also consult more than 33 researchers and university professors and historians in Spain, Morocco, Brazil, Mali and Senegal.

The information was confirmed by Western historians and Africa. This suggests that long before Columbus, the explorer of Asia, Africa and Europe, including the Phoenicians, Japan, Scandinavian Vikings and a Chinese Muslim explorer has visited America.

"We also have evidence of the role of the Arabs of Andalusia and Raja Abu Bakr II of Mali who travel with troops to Brazil 180 years before Columbus," said Abul Khair.

He added that there is also evidence to suggest that Arab Andalusia, at the beginning of their downfall in the thirteenth century, has moved much of civilization to Timbuktu in Mali.

Abul Khair said the documentary is based on scientific facts reported by Western scholars that he met during his trip to Spain and Brazil.

It is also based on two books written by Alvarez, the city of Medina-Sidonia nobility in Spain. Two of the book is We Were Not Us (1992) and Africa confronts Africa (2008).

The film is translated into various languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic and English. For the music created by the English composer Ali Keeler with influences from Europe, Asia and Africa.