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Thomas Jefferson’s personal copy of George Sale’s English translation of the Qur’an — purchased in 1765 while he was a law student — is best read not as evidence of conversion but as a window into an ...
Several well-documented Founders — most prominently Thomas Jefferson — handled or discussed Islamic texts and Islam in ways that entered the public record; Jefferson purchased an English translation o...
did own Islamic texts—most notably a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an () that he purchased in the 1760s and later placed in his library—an ownership confirmed by and multiple historical tr...
George Sale’s 1734 English translation of the Qur’an arrived at a crucial moment in Enlightenment Europe and became the dominant English-language access point to Islamic scripture for well over a cent...
Thomas Jefferson owned a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an (George Sale’s 1734 work, Jefferson’s copy published in 1764) and scholars have traced his interest in that translation across dec...