✍ Scribed by Denise A. Spellberg
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A fascinating new understanding of the birth of American religious freedom and of how Islam shaped the thinking of the Founding Fathers.
In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur'an. His interest in Islam did not belie his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment then rampant among his Protestant contemporaries. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little known but crucial dimension of the birth of American religious freedom, a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. She recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims--then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society--to fashion from what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this...
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