Iberian Muslims in the Americas

The Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic country in Europe. Granada officially fell January 2nd, 1492 with the Treaty of Granada.

Now, is there anyway Granada or at least Muslims in Iberia could have fled to the newly discovered Americas and established some type of Islamic settlement? Preferably still existing to this day or at least Iberian Islamic influence where they settled.
 
I don't think Granada had the resources to support a colony in the Americas. Getting a colony off the ground requires years if not decades of support from the mother country until it can become self-sufficient. Granada had already fallen by the time the New World was discovered, and its exiled rulers were living in Morocco without much of anything to spend on a colonial venture.

I think your best bet is for the Moriscos to be sent to the Americas when they are expelled from Spain. In OTL, there were concerns that the Moriscos couldn't be sent directly to a Muslim country as the children of the Moriscos had been baptized and thus were considered good Christians and sending them to live under Muslim rule would be unjust. This was resolved in OTL by sending them to France, and getting the French to sent them onwards to North Africa. Maybe, instead they can be sent to the colonies where they can be far enough from Spain, but still under Christian rule.

Also, you should check out the TL "Minarets of Atlantis": it describes a 'Moorish New World' i.e. Iberian Muslims.
 
I don't think Granada had the resources to support a colony in the Americas. Getting a colony off the ground requires years if not decades of support from the mother country until it can become self-sufficient. Granada had already fallen by the time the New World was discovered, and its exiled rulers were living in Morocco without much of anything to spend on a colonial venture.

I think your best bet is for the Moriscos to be sent to the Americas when they are expelled from Spain. In OTL, there were concerns that the Moriscos couldn't be sent directly to a Muslim country as the children of the Moriscos had been baptized and thus were considered good Christians and sending them to live under Muslim rule would be unjust. This was resolved in OTL by sending them to France, and getting the French to sent them onwards to North Africa. Maybe, instead they can be sent to the colonies where they can be far enough from Spain, but still under Christian rule.

Also, you should check out the TL "Minarets of Atlantis": it describes a 'Moorish New World' i.e. Iberian Muslims.

Awesome, thank you.
 
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