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035			_a(OCoLC)864090780
050	1	4	_aE332.2 _b.S65 2014
082	0		_a973.46092 _223
100	1		_aSpellberg, Denise A., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aThomas Jefferson's Qur'an : _bIslam and the Founders / _cDenise A. Spellberg
250			_aFirst Vintage Books edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c2014.
264		4	_c©2013
300			_axv, 392 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-375) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : Imagining the Muslim as Citizen at the Founding of the United States -- The European Christian Origins of Negative, but Sometimes Accurate American Ideas About Islam and Muslims, 1529-1797 -- Positive European Christian Precedents for the Toleration of Muslims, and Their Presence in Colonial America, 1554-1706 -- What Jefferson Learned - and Didn't - from His Qur'an : His Negative Views of Islam, and Their Political Uses, Contrasted with His Support for Muslim Civil Rights, 1765-86 -- Jefferson Versus John Adams : the Problem of North African Piracy and Their Negotiations with a Muslim Ambassador in London, 1847-88 -- Could a Muslim Be President? : Muslim Rights and the Ratification of the Constitution, 1788 -- Jefferson Wages War Against an Islamic Power; Entertains the First Muslim Ambassador; Decides Where to Place the Qur'an in His Library; and Affirms His Support for Muslim Rights, 1790-1823 -- Beyond Toleration : John Leland, Baptist Advocate for the Rights of Muslims, 1776-1841 -- Afterword : Why Can't a Muslim Be President? : Eighteenth-Century Ideals of the Muslim Citizen and Their Significance in the Twenty-First Century.
520			_a"In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom-- a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur'an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson's political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders' ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done."--Publisher information.
600	1	0	_aJefferson, Thomas, _d1743-1826 _xPolitical and social views.
600	1	0	_aJefferson, Thomas, _d1743-1826 _xReligion.
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