Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders (85 page)

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Broadside of Voltaire’s play
Mahomet
, English version by Miller performed for American and French troops. “At the Theatre in Baltimore on Tuesday Evening, the 1st of October 1782, will be presented the Tragedy of Mahomet, the Impostor.” Broadside #Y1782. Courtesy of the Collection of the New-York Historical Society.

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Excerpted record of Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of Sale’s Koran from October 1765. In
Virginia Gazette Daybooks
, edited by Paul Hoffman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Microfilm Publications, 1967), segment 2, folio 202. Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

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First page of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an, Sale translator, 1764 edition. Courtesy, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

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Jefferson’s handwritten quotation of Locke, c. 1776. Courtesy, Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.

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Jefferson’s “Autobiography,” 1821, describing the span of believers he intended to cover in his 1786 Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom. Courtesy, Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.

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Jefferson’s initials in his Qur’an, in volume 1, at bottom of p. 113, as “T” and “I.” Courtesy, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

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Engraving of James Iredell (d. 1799), Federalist supporter of the Constitution and Supreme Court justice, etched by Albert Rosenthal, Philadelphia, 1889. Courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Portrait of Ibrahima Abd al-Rahman (d. 1829), a Muslim slave, who wrote in Arabic, described as a “Moorish Prince,” April 1833. Courtesy of New York Public Library.

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Portrait of Omar ibn Said (d. 1863), a Muslim slave from North Carolina, who wrote his autobiography in Arabic. Courtesy of E. H. Little Library, Davidson College.

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Thomas Jefferson by Charles Willson Peale, from life, 1791–92. Courtesy of Independence National Historical Park.

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John Leland (d. 1841), evangelical Baptist ally of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Engraved portrait by T. Doney, painted by A. B. Moore, 1845.

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Congressman Keith Ellison swears his private oath of office on Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an, pictured as Sale’s Koran in 2 volumes, January 4, 2007. Photograph by Win McNamee, Courtesy of Getty Images.