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so who was the first muslim in america absolutely fascinating story
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i'm going to read another chapter from this book hidden history
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30 untold stories of islam in the west by joram van
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clever i'm linking the description below chapter 29 of this book is entitled mustafa azamori the first Muslim in America.
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Really interesting story.
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Now, he's better known in the West by his slave's name, which is Estebanico.
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Now, he lived from 1500 until approximately 1539, just over half a millennium ago.
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And he was the first Muslim, indeed the first African, to set foot on North American soil.
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little is known uh of his uh early years
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but according to historical accounts he was described as a muslim
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and as a negro al arabay quote unquote an arabic speaking black man he was originally from azimur
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which is now in morocco and in 1522 he was sold into slavery to the spanish nobleman Dorantes de Carranza.
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Six years later, Mustafa joined the so-called Navarrez expedition.
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If you go onto Wikipedia, by the way, you can read much more about this Navarrez expedition and the life in general of Mustafa Azimori.
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And this so-called Navarrez expedition departed from Spain all the way to Cuba.
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And from there, under the command of Captain Panfilo de Navarrez,
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he went to explore and colonize or the captain did to explore and colonize present day Florida.
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Now, the expedition quickly descended into disaster.
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The group faced shipwrecks, disease, death and even enslavement by Native American tribes.
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After spending several years in captivity in the region now known as Texas, Azimori managed to escape along with three other people three other
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people by 1534 only four survivors remained of the original 600 men who had left spain
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and one of them was a was the muslim azimori following their escape he posed as a healer
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and gradually learned the languages of the local tribes many native american communities showed him respect
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and even accompanied the group from village to village it must
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have been a striking sight an arabic-speaking north african muslim walking alongside three spanish conquistadors through 16th century america
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eventually after a journey of more than 3 000 kilometers on
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foot can you imagine 3 000 kilometers they reached a spanish
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outpost in mexico in july 1536 there is evidence uh suggesting
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that mustapha was freed upon arrival there he was added to the personal guard of the local spanish leader
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and he appeared he no longer appears in later records as
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a slave in 1539 he was chosen to lead a new expedition however the group was attacked
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and many lives were lost some sources claim
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that azimori was among the dead yet there is one account
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which reports that spanish explorers arriving years later encountered a dark-skinned medicine man living among a native american tribe
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so who knows maybe he survived now this theory
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that he did survive suggests that azimori may have faked his own death to escape these Spaniards once and for all,
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and finally to claim his freedom. Who knows?
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What exactly happened to Mustafa Azimori in the end may never be known.
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What is certain however is
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that Islam was already present in America long before the United States
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or the modern state of Mexico even existed and
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that Mustafa Azimori was the first Muslim ever to set foot on the American continent
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well before the arrival of the first protestant christians that's
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that book chapter 29 absolutely fascinating
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that we still have some records of this uh muslim traveler
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in america way before uh the protestant christians arrived the puritans who famously started from plymouth here in england
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and went to discover the new world i conquer it
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and ultimately ethnically cleanse and purge the country of the indigenous nations
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that existed in in north america but that's another uh story
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so who was the first muslim uh to be in america what i find interesting is
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that he you know this was in the 1500s this is centuries before um you know large-scale immigration happened
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but it's interesting that many many slaves were taken from africa later on
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and uh percentages vary but it could be a huge number of those were muslim slaves
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and most of them were forced to renounce their faith by their christian slave owners but that's another story as well
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until next time
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Who Was the First Muslim in America?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: muslim, azimori, america, mustafa, expedition. Este vídeo tiene 55 frases y 726 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:53. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 123 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| expedition sustantivo | /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ | expedición |
| colonize verbo | /ˈkɑlənaɪz/ | colonizar |
| fascinate verbo | /ˈfæsɪneɪt/ | fascinar |
| cleanse verbo | /klɛnz/ | acendrar, cendrar |
| enslavement sustantivo | esclavización | |
| famously adverbio | famosamente | |
| healer sustantivo | /ˈhilɚ/ | curandero, santero |
| nobleman sustantivo | /ˈnoʊbl̩mən/ | noble |
| outpost sustantivo | /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/ | avanzadilla, puesto avanzado |
| renounce verbo | /ɹɪˈnaʊns/ | delejar, renunciar |
| shipwreck sustantivo | /ˈʃɪpɹɛk/ | naufragio, derrelicto |
| traveller sustantivo | /ˈtɹævəlɚ/ | viajero, viajera |
| descend verbo | /dəˈsɛnd/ | descender |
| captivity sustantivo | /kæpˈtɪvɪti/ | cautividad, cautiverio |
| purge verbo | /pɜɹd͡ʒ/ | purgar, porgar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is entitled · is known · was described |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | name, which is · men who had |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, shipwreck /ˈʃɪpɹɛk/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, conquistador /kənˈkistədɔɹ/, captivity /kæpˈtɪvɪti/, accompany /əˈkʌm.pə.ni/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: traveller /ˈtɹævəlɚ/, captivity /kæpˈtɪvɪti/, survivor /sɚˈvaɪvɚ/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: colonize /ˈkɑlənaɪz/, cleanse /klɛnz/, pose /poʊz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: purge /pɜɹd͡ʒ/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como expedition, colonize, fascinate.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.