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DID YOU KNOW . . .
I read an interesting article from Saudi Aramco World this morning and I would like to share it with everyone:
• Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the USA and principal author of the 1776 Declaration of Independence (USA) personally owned a copy of the English version of the Qur’an.
• During the Anglo-American War, invading British troops set fire to the Capitol Building, burning and pillaging the contents of the small library – the Library of Congress 3000-volume collection of books.
• Jefferson sold his 6,000 plus book collection to the Library as replacement for the losses.
• Among the books sold to the Library was a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an.
• Jefferson bought his copy of the Qur’an around 1765, when he was still a law student in Virginia, USA.
• Jefferson kept his Qur’an in the section on “Religion”, between the myths and gods of antiquity and a copy of the Old Testament. I found this trivia information extremely interesting because in my library, I also keep my copy of the Qur’an and the Bible among my books on gods and mythology and philosophy. In Jefferson’s library, “Religion” was under “Jurisprudence.” So, he read the Qur’an as a law book.
• The English version of the Qur’an that Jefferson had was translated from Arabic by the Englishman George Sale, a lawyer whose interest was oriental scholarship. The other Qur’an translations at that time were from French or Latin.
• George Sale’s preface called the Prophet Mohammed, “the lawgiver of Arabians”, stressing the Qur’an as an example of a distinct legal tradition.
• Scholars speculate that his reading of the Qur’an may have reinforced his commitment to religious freedom.
• George Sale’s Koran remained the best possible English version of the Qur’an for another 150 years.
• Today, the Library of Congress holds more than 140 million books and other printed items and of these, nearly one million printed items relate to Islam, including Jefferson’s original copy of the Qur’an.
Rachel Hajar, M.D.
Author of My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality
Available at:
http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
• Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the USA and principal author of the 1776 Declaration of Independence (USA) personally owned a copy of the English version of the Qur’an.
• During the Anglo-American War, invading British troops set fire to the Capitol Building, burning and pillaging the contents of the small library – the Library of Congress 3000-volume collection of books.
• Jefferson sold his 6,000 plus book collection to the Library as replacement for the losses.
• Among the books sold to the Library was a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an.
• Jefferson bought his copy of the Qur’an around 1765, when he was still a law student in Virginia, USA.
• Jefferson kept his Qur’an in the section on “Religion”, between the myths and gods of antiquity and a copy of the Old Testament. I found this trivia information extremely interesting because in my library, I also keep my copy of the Qur’an and the Bible among my books on gods and mythology and philosophy. In Jefferson’s library, “Religion” was under “Jurisprudence.” So, he read the Qur’an as a law book.
• The English version of the Qur’an that Jefferson had was translated from Arabic by the Englishman George Sale, a lawyer whose interest was oriental scholarship. The other Qur’an translations at that time were from French or Latin.
• George Sale’s preface called the Prophet Mohammed, “the lawgiver of Arabians”, stressing the Qur’an as an example of a distinct legal tradition.
• Scholars speculate that his reading of the Qur’an may have reinforced his commitment to religious freedom.
• George Sale’s Koran remained the best possible English version of the Qur’an for another 150 years.
• Today, the Library of Congress holds more than 140 million books and other printed items and of these, nearly one million printed items relate to Islam, including Jefferson’s original copy of the Qur’an.
Rachel Hajar, M.D.
Author of My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality
Available at:
http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
DID YOU KNOW . . .
November 18, 2011
I read an interesting article from Saudi Aramco World this morning and I would like to share it with everyone:
• Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the USA and principal author of the 1776 Declaration of Independence (USA) personally owned a copy of the English version of the Qur’an.
• During the Anglo-American War, invading British troops set fire to the Capitol Building, burning and pillaging the contents of the small library – the Library of Congress 3000-volume collection of books.
• Jefferson sold his 6,000 plus book collection to the Library as replacement for the losses.
• Among the books sold to the Library was a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an.
• Jefferson bought his copy of the Qur’an around 1765, when he was still a law student in Virginia, USA.
• Jefferson kept his Qur’an in the section on “Religion”, between the myths and gods of antiquity and a copy of the Old Testament. I found this trivia information extremely interesting because in my library, I also keep my copy of the Qur’an and the Bible among my books on gods and mythology and philosophy. In Jefferson’s library, “Religion” was under “Jurisprudence.” So, he read the Qur’an as a law book.
• The English version of the Qur’an that Jefferson had was translated from Arabic by the Englishman George Sale, a lawyer whose interest was oriental scholarship. The other Qur’an translations at that time were from French or Latin.
• George Sale’s preface called the Prophet Mohammed, “the lawgiver of Arabians”, stressing the Qur’an as an example of a distinct legal tradition.
• Scholars speculate that his reading of the Qur’an may have reinforced his commitment to religious freedom.
• George Sale’s Koran remained the best possible English version of the Qur’an for another 150 years.
• Today, the Library of Congress holds more than 140 million books and other printed items and of these, nearly one million printed items relate to Islam, including Jefferson’s original copy of the Qur’an.
Rachel Hajar, M.D.
Author of My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality
Available at:
http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
I read an interesting article from Saudi Aramco World this morning and I would like to share it with everyone:
• Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the USA and principal author of the 1776 Declaration of Independence (USA) personally owned a copy of the English version of the Qur’an.
• During the Anglo-American War, invading British troops set fire to the Capitol Building, burning and pillaging the contents of the small library – the Library of Congress 3000-volume collection of books.
• Jefferson sold his 6,000 plus book collection to the Library as replacement for the losses.
• Among the books sold to the Library was a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an.
• Jefferson bought his copy of the Qur’an around 1765, when he was still a law student in Virginia, USA.
• Jefferson kept his Qur’an in the section on “Religion”, between the myths and gods of antiquity and a copy of the Old Testament. I found this trivia information extremely interesting because in my library, I also keep my copy of the Qur’an and the Bible among my books on gods and mythology and philosophy. In Jefferson’s library, “Religion” was under “Jurisprudence.” So, he read the Qur’an as a law book.
• The English version of the Qur’an that Jefferson had was translated from Arabic by the Englishman George Sale, a lawyer whose interest was oriental scholarship. The other Qur’an translations at that time were from French or Latin.
• George Sale’s preface called the Prophet Mohammed, “the lawgiver of Arabians”, stressing the Qur’an as an example of a distinct legal tradition.
• Scholars speculate that his reading of the Qur’an may have reinforced his commitment to religious freedom.
• George Sale’s Koran remained the best possible English version of the Qur’an for another 150 years.
• Today, the Library of Congress holds more than 140 million books and other printed items and of these, nearly one million printed items relate to Islam, including Jefferson’s original copy of the Qur’an.
Rachel Hajar, M.D.
Author of My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality
Available at:
http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
