Denise Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders
In April 2011, armed with “nothing more than the requisite library card and the relevant call number” (viii), Denise Spellberg perused Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an, the two-volume Qur’an that Jefferson owned and which may have been the second Qur’an he had purchased, assuming that the first was lost i...
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| में प्रकाशित: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas, |
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| स्वरूप: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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European journal of American studies
2022
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| सारांश: | In April 2011, armed with “nothing more than the requisite library card and the relevant call number” (viii), Denise Spellberg perused Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an, the two-volume Qur’an that Jefferson owned and which may have been the second Qur’an he had purchased, assuming that the first was lost in his famous 1770 library fire. This was the volume on which newly elected Representative Keith Ellison (MN-5), the first Muslim congressman in U.S. history, took his symbolic oath of office. The o... |
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