TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spellberg,Denise A.
AU  - سبلبيرغ، دينيس أ.
TI  - Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the founders 
SN  - 978-0-307-26822-8
U1  - 220.72 23A
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Muslims--Civil rights--United States--History--18th century
KW  - Islam and politics--United States
KW  - Freedom of religion--United States--History--18th century
KW  - Constitutional history--United States
N1  - Notes bibliogr; Introduction : Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an : imagining the Muslim as citizen at the founding of the United States -- The European Christian origins of negative, incorrect, curious, 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, 1765-1786 -- Could a Muslim be president? : Muslim rights and the ratification of the Constitution, 1788 -- Jefferson "the infidel" wages war against an Islamic power; entertains the first Muslim ambassador in Washington; decides on 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
ER  -