Download or read book An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America written by Caesar E. Farah and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905, the Jesuit scholar Antûn Rabbât discovered the writings of Elias-al- Mûsili in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. al- Mûsili, a seventeenth century Arab and priest of the Chaldean Church, traveled widely across colonial Spanish America becoming the first person to visit the Americas from Baghdad. Rabbât transcribed into Arabic and published those portions relating to al-Mûsili’s travels and Middle Eastern historian Caesar Farah is the first to make these writings available in English translation.