Thomas Jefferson’s Quran

Title page of Jefferson’s copy of the Koran. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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Title

• The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

Names

• Sale, George, 1697?-1736.
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner.
• Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• London : Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins ... and T. Wilcox ..., 1764.

Headings

• -  England--London

Notes

• -  Vol. 1: xvi, [2], 266, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 519, [13] p.
• -  Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1457
• -  ESTC (RLIN) T143522
• -  Title pages printed in red and black.
• -  Includes indexes.
• -  LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.
• -  LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initials at signatures I and T in both volumes.
• -  BP109.S3 1764 Copy 1 is the Koran used in private swearing in ceremony for Keith Ellison, Congressman, 5th District, Minn., Jan. 2007. vj21 2007-01-10.
• -  LAC aaa 2018-12-10 update (1 card)

Medium

• 2 v. : ill., map, geneal. tables (engravings) ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Call Number/Physical Location

• BP109 .S3 1764
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• ABOUT THOMAS JEFFERSON’S QUR’AN

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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.

As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.

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Research Interests

My research in intellectual, religious, and gender history focuses on the medieval Islamic world, from Iran to North Africa, and also on Islam and Muslims in early modern and contemporary Europe and the United States. Although my home department at UT is History, I am affiliated with our Programs in Middle Eastern and Religious Studies. My work is interdisciplinary and comparative, supporting a global approach to Islamic Studies, rather than an area-specific one.

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders (Knopf, 2013) has been translated into Indonesian, Turkish, and Arabic. 

I have also written, Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr (Columbia, 1994).

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Courses Taught

I teach the first half of the introductory, required course sequence for Middle Eastern Studies undergraduate majors, “Introduction to the Middle East, Religious, Cultural, Historical Foundations, 570-1453” cross-listed with History and Religious Studies. Other courses taught include an upper-division lecture on Islamic Spain and North Africa to 1492 and the undergraduate seminar Islam in the History of the U.S. As History Honors Director, I also teach the junior historiography seminar for our junior Honors students. Graduate courses taught include those focused on Islamic historiography, Islam in Europe and America, as well as Islam, narrative, and slavery. 

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Awards/Honors

Carnegie Foundation Scholarship (2009-10) awarded in support of my research on Islam and the Founders. Foreign Research Lectureship, École des Hautes Études (EHESS), Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France, (January 2004); National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1992-93).

Grand Prize winner of the 2014 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award for Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an, chosen by an interdisciplinary committee of faculty from among the 51 books published at UT Austin from all colleges and fields in the year 2013. “The Hamilton Awards are among the highest honors of literary achievement given for UT Austin authors.” October 15, 2014.

Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards, Nonfiction Finalist 2013/2014, September 30, 2014.

I-CAIR Faith in Freedom Award from the Council American-Islamic Relations, Cleveland, Ohio Chapter, “For promoting a better understanding of the history of religious freedom in America and for writing Muslims back into our nation’s founding narrative through the extraordinary and illuminating scholarly work, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders,” May 11, 2014.

Dost (“Friend”) Book Prize awarded by the Turkish Women’s Cultural Association, Istanbul, for  Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past (1994), for “universal contribution to Islamic Studies,” January 2009.

I have been nominated for 7 teaching awards (1991-2013) at UT and won three others: The Harry Ransom Teaching Award (2006), the Dad’s Centennial Teaching Fellowship (2003), and the President’s Associates Teaching Award for Excellence in History (1996-97).

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• KONTROVERSI AL-QURAN THOMAS JEFFERSON

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• KONTROVERSI AL-QURAN THOMAS JEFFERSON

Penulis: Denise A. Spellberg

Penerjemah: Adi Toha

Genre: Sejarah/Politik

Cetakan: I, April 2014

Ukuran: 15 cm x 23 cm

Tebal: 488 halaman

ISBN: 978-602-9193-46-6

Benjamin Franklin hold the Quran translate book.

Title

• Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 / J.L.G. Ferris.

Summary

• Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams meet at Jefferson's lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High (Market) streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence.

Names

• Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930, artist

Created / Published

• Cleveland, Ohio : The Foundation Press, Inc., c1932 July 28.

Headings

• -  Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826
• -  Adams, John,--1735-1826
• -  Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790
• -  United States.--Declaration of Independence--1770-1780

Headings

• Halftone photomechanical prints--Color--1930-1940.
• Oil paintings--Reproductions--1930-1940.

Genre

• Oil paintings--Reproductions--1930-1940
• Halftone photomechanical prints--Color--1930-1940

Notes

• -  K17406 U.S. Copyright Office.
• -  Title from item.
• -  Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation.
• -  No. 17.
• -  Copyright by The Foundation Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

Medium

• 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LOT 4579 [item] [P&P]

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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SINOPSIS

Pada 1765, sebelas tahun menjelang Deklarasi Kemerdekaan Amerika Serikat (AS), Thomas Jefferson membeli al-Quran. Rupanya, ini hanya menandai awal dari minatnya yang panjang terhadap Islam. Memang, setelah itu ia terus mencari sejumlah buku tentang bahasa, sejarah, dan perkembangan Timur Tengah. 

Jefferson pun intensif memahami Islam meskipun hal itu dinilai menghina keimanannya, sebuah sentimen umum yang berlaku di kalangan Protestan kala itu di Inggris dan Amerika. Syah dan, sejak 1776, Jefferson telah membayangkan kaum Muslim sebagai warga Negara masa depan bagi negeri barunya, AS.

Buku ini mengungkapkan cerita penting yang sedikit diketahui ihwal riwayat kebebasan agama di AS; sebuah drama di mana Islam memainkan peran mengejutkan. 

Denise A. Spellberg menceritakan bagaimana para Pendiri Amerika SerikatJefferson termasuk yang terkemuka di antaranyatertarik pada ide-ide Pencerahan perihal toleransi Muslim untuk menciptakan landasan praktis pemerintahan Amerika yang tengah sengit diperdebatkan. 

Dalam hal ini, kaum Muslim, yang kala itu bahkan tak diketahui eksistensinya di koloni itu, menjadi batas imajinasi terjauh bagi pluralisme keagamaan Amerika, yang juga mencakup kaum Yahudi dan Katolik sebagai minoritas sebenarnya.

Kini, selagi kecurigaan Barat terhadap Islam terus hidup dan jumlah warga Muslim di AS kian tumbuh menjadi jutaan, cerita Spellberg yang mengungkap gagasan revolusioner para Pendiri AS ini sangat penting diketahui. Di tengah menguatnya keyakinan ihwal benturan peradaban antara Islam dan Barat, buku ini menjadi bacaan yang tepat untuk merajut kembali harapan akan perdamaian dunia.

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PENULIS

DENISE A. SPELLBERG (lahir pada 1958) adalah cendekiawan Amerika dalam bidang sejarah Islam. Profesor Sejarah dan Studi Timur Tengah di University of Texas, Austin, ini menyandang gelar BA dari Smith College (1980) dan gelar PhD dari Columbia University (1989).

Minat kajiannya terfokus pada Islam dalam sejarah Amerika Serikat dan Eropa; juga sejarah Islam abad pertengahan, agama, dan gender. Di ruang kelas, ia mengajar mata kuliah tentang Sejarah Islam di Amerika Serikat; Islam di Eropa dan Amerika; Pengantar tentang Timur Tengah; serta Spanyol dan Afrika Utara Era IslamHistoriografi Islam.

Selain buku ini, Spellberg juga menulis buku berjudulPolitics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of Aisha Bint Abi Bakr, karya yang banyak dikutip yang menggambarkan sosok Aisyah dan kontribusinya dalam tradisi Islam. Selain menulis buku, dia pun rajin menulis artikel ilmiah, antara lain :

1. Islam in America: Adventures in Neo-Orientalism, 

2. Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Summer 2009); 

3. Could a Muslim Be President? An Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Debate,Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006); 

4. dan Inventing Matamoras: Gender and the Forgotten Islamic Past in the United States of America, 

5. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25 (2004).

Cendekiawan yang produktif menulis ini meraih banyak peng-hargaan. Dia menyabet penghargaan Carnegie Foundation Scholarship 2009-2010, setelah sebelumnya pada 2006 meraih Harry Ransom Teaching Award. Jauh sebelum itu, dia juga meraih Presidents Associates Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award in History, 1996-1997.

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• surat 2 Al-Baqarah ayat 74
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• أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
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• ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ فَهِيَ كَالْحِجَارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً ۚ وَإِنَّ مِنَ الْحِجَارَةِ لَمَا يَتَفَجَّرُ مِنْهُ الْأَنْهَارُ ۚ وَإِنَّ مِنْهَا لَمَا يَشَّقَّقُ فَيَخْرُجُ مِنْهُ الْمَاءُ ۚ وَإِنَّ مِنْهَا لَمَا يَهْبِطُ مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ ۗ وَمَا اللَّهُ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ
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• Setelah itu, hatimu menjadi keras sehingga ia (hatimu) seperti batu, bahkan lebih keras. Padahal, dari batu-batu itu pasti ada sungai-sungai yang (airnya) memancar. Ada pula yang terbelah, lalu keluarlah mata air darinya, dan ada lagi yang meluncur jatuh karena takut kepada Allah. Allah tidaklah lengah terhadap apa yang kamu kerjakan.
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• Rasulullah Saw bersabda:
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• ا تُكْثِرُوا الْكَلَامَ بِغَيْرِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ، فَإِنَّ كَثْرَةَ الْكَلَامِ بِغَيْرِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ قَسْوَةُ الْقَلْبِ، وَإِنَّ أَبْعَدَ النَّاسِ مِنَ اللَّهِ الْقَلْبُ الْقَاسِي”
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• bahwa Rasulullah Shallallahu’alaihi Wasallam pernah bersabda: Janganlah kalian banyak bicara selain zikir kepada Allah, karena sesungguhnya banyak bicara selain zikir kepada Allah mengakibatkan hati menjadi keras. Sesungguhnya sejauh-jauh manusia dari Allah ialah orang yang berhati keras.
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• Al-Bazzar meriwayatkan sebuah hadis melalui Anas secara marfu’ yaitu:
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• “أَرْبَعٌ مِنَ الشَّقَاءِ: جُمُودُ الْعَيْنِ، وَقِسِيُّ الْقَلْبِ، وَطُولُ الْأَمَلِ، والحرص على الدنيا”
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• Ada empat pekerti yang menyebabkan kecelakaan, yaitu kerasnya mata (tidak pernah menangis karena Allah), hati yang keras. panjang angan-angan, dan rakus terhadap keduniawian.
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Pengantar dan Ucapan Terima Kasih.

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