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04 May 08
11:24 am
I was in the front row!!!!
Masha’Allah an excellent talk, must listen!
04 May 08
12:04 pm
JazakAllah khair!!!!!
04 May 08
3:38 pm
Mashallah; what an amazing lecture. I can’t believe just how much history there is in this country. Yasir Qadhi does amazing job. I am honored to be among his students through Almaghrib. Kabilah Ruhma (Seattle). He is an amazing teacher, scholar and a great role model of muslims in America. Mashallah, I wish I was there personally to receive this message.
04 May 08
5:14 pm
I love this quote, “How can you son of painters say you cannot draw me in a dress that you’ve never seen when you call draw God whom none of us has seen”
06 May 08
2:55 pm
MashaAllah, may Allah increase us in knowledge and Iman…
06 May 08
3:43 pm
[...] Islam in America: Whither and Where [...]
19 May 08
10:26 pm
Maybe the shaikh can submit his research to Oprah!
20 May 08
2:34 pm
Very interesting “LivingHalal”
I think that is a good idea
Why Not???
Br. Albaraa,
Are you interested in passing the idea on to Shaikh Yasir???
20 May 08
2:35 pm
Very interesting “LivingHalal”
I think that is a good idea
Why Not???
Br. Albaraa,
Are you interested in passing the idea on to Shaikh Yasir???
21 May 08
3:22 am
5 quick facts about Muslims in China:
1- As shaikh said, 10% means a lot!
2- Islam has been there for over 1200 yrs
3- Muslims are not only in the north western region, Muslims are everywhere, what do you say, you have villages in the south and east full of Muslims.
4- There was a Muslim emperor, a Muslim state in Yung nan, and many other famous Muslim generals and scientists
5- Even today, you can see Halal restaurants everywhere in major cities
22 May 08
10:44 am
[...] May.22.2008 in IlmCast, Video, Yasir Qadhi by islamhd Tags: allah, america, frontier, hd, Islam, Muslim, revamp Enjoy. Islam in America. [...]
28 Jun 08
7:02 pm
Such an informative lecture…and such amazing historical research…may Allah SWT immmensely reward Sh. Yasir Qadhi for enlightening us…and may Allah SWT increase our knowledge about Deen, and guide us to the straight path. Ameen.
04 Sep 08
11:17 pm
[...] Islam in America: Whither and Where [...]
08 Sep 08
6:13 am
Awesome lecture! Insha’Allah I hope a course is taught in all schools in the world covering the history of Islamic civilization.
31 Oct 08
4:36 am
Great lecture! Thanks for sharing.
25 Jan 09
8:42 pm
AsSalaam aliekum,
Hi Jolly’s pyramid shaped grave was built in 1934. Hi Jolly had two daughters and he deserted his family. He was never an Imam and his family never became Muslim. Don’t make up history.
08 Sep 09
6:14 pm
He is a man who studies continuously and as a Muslim he it is forbidden for him to lie; so what he is saying, whether it is in fact true or false, is to the best of his knowledge. If you have evidence to prove otherwise, please present it rather than making empty accusations. Moreover for a muslim to suspect another muslim is forbidden; see Qur’an. May Allah guide us all to His straight path, ameen.
08 Sep 09
9:35 pm
He was repeating what he heard from others. He didn’t have to make it up, and I wasn’t accusing him specifically of making up history, nor did I call him a liar. Why don’t you do some research yourself on who Hi Jolly was and then comment.
There are several works on Hi Jolly such as “Uncle Sam’s Camels” that will show that my comments were accurate. I put the exagerated comments on Hi Jolly along with those that claim Cherokees were Muslim and that there last Chief was named Salahudin ibn Watie, when his father’s name was Stan Watie (which is not related an any linguist word to the Arabic word that looks the same). Also claims of 40% of slaves being Muslims and other such claims need not be repeated, even though many Muslim speakers do so. read my “Five Classic Muslim Slave Narratives,” “Islam in America and Other Writings of Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb” and “Osmanli Diaspora Press” for more details. The comment was not directed specifically at the brother, but at anyone that just repeats historical inaccurate facts just to make Muslims look good, while when doing so makes us look like we do not have the ability to do proper historical research.
08 Sep 09
9:46 pm
Have you relayed the information to him directly. He checks his email regularly. Perhaps you want to let him know.
If you want his email address - just send me a tweet @khanb1
08 Sep 09
9:47 pm
or you can send him a tweet directly to @YasirQadhi
08 Sep 09
9:49 pm
Philip Tedro:
A Greek Legend of the American West
By STEVE FRANGOS
Greek-American Review
A full length biography is under way by this same writer.
08 Sep 09
9:50 pm
AsSalaam aliekum,
I don’t have Tweeter.
15 Sep 09
6:04 pm
I havent heard this lecture yet but a few points to present reading fromt he comments
- If Hadji Ali aka Hi Jolly was an Imam, I wonder who he was leading in his Imamate.
Allahu’Alam
Besides, Br. Muhammad alAhari, I think you yourself mentioned in your own article entitled “The Islamic Community In The United States: Historical Development”, that Hadji Ali was an Imam and did raised his daughters as Muslims. And you mentioned that he had three daughters.
Allahu’alam
15 Sep 09
6:51 pm
One Muslim of this era not covered by these writers was Hadji Ali (Philip Tedro) a Greek convert to Islam and one of six camel handlers (three Arabs, Two Turks, and Hadji Ali) in the short-lived U.S. camel calvary corp in 1856. The Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis introduced a bill in Congress, that passed in 1855, to import camels for military purposes in the Arizona desert. During the experiment, 77 camels and six handlers were brought over from the East. When the War between the States broke out, this experiment was abandoned. It was called off due to the impending Civil War. Hadji Ali was the only of the cameleers to remain in the U.S.. The others returned to their homelands. Circuses and Zoos acquired some of the camels and others were turned loose. The camels that were turned loose in the desert terrorized live stock and wild animals for years. Hadji A]i became a prospector in the Colorado River Area. He eventually became a legend under- the corrupted name given to him by soldiers in the U.S. calvary- Hi Jolly. The legacy of this experiment are a highway gravemarker for Hadji Ali, some U.S. Army Manuals [see esp.- "Report Upon the Purchase, Importation, and Use of Camels and Dromedaries, To be Employed for military purposes, According to Act of Congress March 3, 1855. Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War 1855, '56, '57-240 pp.], and a movie by Walt Disney called Hawmps starring Slim Pickens and Denver Pyle. Hadji Ali lived to 1903 in Quartzsite, Arizona where he was a Prospector “and resident Imam. His three daughters were raised as Muslims but I have yet to verify how many generations Islam continued in his family.”
The highlighted portion of the line about being resident Imam was not in the original published in Fountain Magazine. The original also reads “Whether his three daughters were raised as Muslims and how many generations Islam continued in his family has yet to be verified.”
AsSalaam aliekum,
If I made errors, I will freely admit them and change my positions when new data is located. Haj Ali’s wife left him and took their daughters when he resumed prospecting, so if he was ever an Imam it was only for his family and perhaps his brother Blackie and then only for a brief time. As I noted, whether his daughters were raised as Muslims or even given Muslim names has yet to be determined.
Like my articles published in the Minaret in the 1980s, words were added or rearranged from the original. In an article in the Minaret I wrote on Arabic slave narratives the original said “‘Umar ibn Said quoted verses from the Bible and the Qur’an in his Arabic writings.” The published version had “‘Umar ibn Said quoted Hadith, verses from the Bible and the Qur’an in his Arabic writings.” Also in an article on Bilali Muhammad there was an illustration of a manuscript from ‘Umar ibn Said. When I asked about the error the editor told me that ‘Umar’s manuscript looked better and no one would notice. I’ve been debating whether to write an article on such errors that have been repeated. Also an article I wrote on Muhammad Alexander Russell in the Minaret was reprinted in the handbook for the 1993 World Parliament of Religions with no changes except that my name was deleted.
This article has been reposted in hundreds of places of the internet. Some are more edited than others, some with my name or some version of it. This was written almost twenty years ago and I have found dozens more references and photos of Haj Ali since then. Some of the more recent sources even question if he was a Muslim since some Greek names as similar to the word hajji. One I’ve seen is Hajiamotos.
20 Sep 09
12:25 am
jazakAllahu khayran
It’s unfortunate how articles are changed for whatever reason.