Original sentence: )  Such claims are not credited by mainstream historians., that he was accompanied by several Muslim sailors, Muslim navigators visiting Genoa gave Columbus the idea that it was possible to reach India by sailing westward into the Atlantic Ocean.Adherents of of Pre-Columbian Islamic contact theories sometimes make pseudohistorical claims regarding Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492 (e.Many modern scholars regard these accounts as being of dubious reliability.These theories are generally not credited by mainstream historians and may be considered exercises in pseudohistory
Edited sentence: Columbus' son, Fernando Colón, also records that his father learned in Genoa from Muslim shipmen that visited the place that it was possible to reach India by sailing west of the European continent as an alternative to sailing eastwards.For his journey he relied on the southbound Canary Current off the coast of the Iberian peninsula and the western coast of Africa, and the Northeast Tradewinds that blow westward towards the Carribean region.His craft was made by local Africans of indigenous papyrus.In 1969, Thor Heyerdhal, a Scandinavian scientist crossed the Atlantic ocean from the North Afircan port of Safi, arriving in Barbados, West Indies.The maritime prowess and significant navigational accomplishments made by individuals and states of the Muslim world during this period of the Islamic Golden Age is unquestioned, and the exploits of well-known Muslim travellers such as Ibn Battuta and Zheng He are representative of the wide-ranging extent and reach of Muslim geography and influence across the continents of Africa, Europe and Asia.The voyage is considered as evidence that it was possible to cross the Atlantic in medieval western Africa.When Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas in 1492, he was accompanied by several Muslim sailors (Andalusian Moors) who travelled with him to the New World, as well as Andalusian Jews who attempted to speak Arabic to the Tainos in Cuba