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habarakhe4 eskriviw: > Please don't call me Tony. I am really sorry. I'll try to pay more attention to correct address forms, ya mi mohhtáramo rafiko, Hhakimo Tofilos karimo (o my estimated colleague, Dr. Theophilus!) The last phrase was not sarcastic; just a plain Ajami way to express respect. > --- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, Adam Walker > <carrajena@y...> wrote: > > > > --- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@u...> wrote: > > > > S? Paulo M. al-Hasan > > > > > > Oho! How those Shi`a boys get to America? > Presumably on a ship. > > Totally > > > impossible. > > > > > > > Why impossible? I would assume a Muslim North Africa > > was settled from North Africa, and North Africa has > > had periods of being Shi`a. The Fatmids started out > > in Tunisia before moving east to Egypt. And weren't > > some of the various Moroccan dynasties Shi`a? > > The Berbers, who formed the backbone of the Marinid state, were > often Shi'a or even only vaguely Islamic. Besides, both Catholics > and Protestants settled the new world *here*. I never said that only > one Islamic dynasty was involved in the settlement of Islamic > al-Wiraniyya. You are absolutely right, mis rafikos. That shows how little I know about the history of the Islamic world ven *here*. I'll keep on collecting information, I didn't know about Shi`ite Africa. The info you gave, is encouraging. It may give way to Ajamis inclination to Shi`a. Una betz más xukran, Yitzik