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2007

Jefferson's Qur'an returns to Congress

Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, takes his ceremonial oath on Thomas Jefferson's own copy of the Qur'an, held at the Library of Congress.

Jefferson bought his 1734 English translation of the Qur'an as a young law student; the two-volume set survives today in the Library of Congress collections.

Source

Library of Congress