Why didn't muslim countries colonize the new world like christian countries did?

Why didn't muslim countries colonize the new world like christian countries did?

Im assuming because most are landlocked
If they were by the sea, shit navy
Just a guess

no ships

But the Ottoman navy was one of the strongest of all time during its age and the ottomans had a huge control of the med sea, why didn't they colonize it?

navy capable of controlling a sea != navy capable of crossing oceans
navies have nothing to do with colonizing the new world anyways, its citizen settlers

Ottoman naval dominance was restricted to the Mediterranean and ended after Lepanto.

They colonized Balkans, India, Central Asia and Indonesia instead.

What about the berbers or morrocans? They were as close to the new world as the portugese or spaniards were yet they never ventured out

Because they had access to eastern trade routes, while European access to eastern trade routes was blocked by the Ottomans, so they needed an alternative route and tried sailing around the world.

some expeditions made it as far as the bahamas but that was it

berbers were pirates

Portugal and Spain did, because black plague, strong states and beliefs and the need for richness due to poverty. While almost all other states were thriving due to commerce with the arabs and the chinese through venice and other italian cities

lebanon is colonising brazil as we speak

kek it's true 90% of our politicians are lebanese

They got rekt by venetian navy constantly
so I guess the answer is "same reason Venice never colonized countries"

Wrong, the Ottomans eventually destroyed the venetian navy and had absolute naval dominance constantly raiding coasts with little to no resistance

Most Lebanese diaspora are Christian though

Ottoman vessels were lightweight. They were made for calm seas.

Ottoman raids happened in fucking iceland but you can't cross the atlantic?

They colonized South Asia (Pajeets) and South East Asia (Malaysia and Indonesia).

You have to understand the Euro mentality at the time. Muslims were at the height of their power more or less while Euros were basically at siege completely cut off from the GUD trade routes with the exception of the Venetians.

The Silk Road/meditteranean trade was still highly active (and the basis for empires for 1000s of years)

The euros basically went West out of desperation, and ended up striking gold. Muslims just weren't in tune with how this could mean their downfall until it was too late.

The silk road and Med trade completely dried up due to how much easier it is to ship tonnage over water (still the most efficient way to ship things by far) and the Atlantic/pacific ocean trade routes were created.

All of the formerly powerful central asian/meditteranean powers completely dried up and never recovered.

Unlike christians, muslims are not savages and they respect the rest of the world

lmao

this pretty much

you guys are cunts, the islamic world was rapidly expanding at the time when euros started colonization except Iberia

That vessel belonged to a Dutch captain that took us there. Besides it happened once.

because geography
arabs sort of colonized lot of place in africa, mena, indian subcontinent, europe, even south east asia
they would have never gotten to the new world when europe being the closest took pretty long itself

This, we never went colonising random people over the globe.

And wh*te people won't shut up about that now.

So? They are still lebanese

Christianity is a Semitic religion

Fuck this argument
Buddhism started as an Indian religion now it's an east Asian one
Christianity started as a Semitic religion now it's a European one

Probably can't ascertain the direction of Mecca when you've been on the open ocean for days. Same reason muslims are banned from going to space

Protestantism is a Germanic religion.
Catholicism is a Latin religion.

Germanics use to be the dirtiest people in the word (t. ibn Fadlan) now they don't wash their hands after a piss and participate in group sex.