Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg Page A

441–51; Marshall,
John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
, 391–95.
    294. Quoted in Champion,
Pillars
, 111; Marshall,
John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
, 391.
    295. Quoted in Champion,
Pillars
, 112; Marshall,
John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
, 391.
    296. Matar, “Turbanned Nations,” 69; Ziad Elmarsafy,
The Enlightenment Qur’an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam
(Oxford: Oneworld Press, 2009), 8–9.

3. 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, 1765–86
    1. Paul P. Hoffman, ed.,
Virginia Gazette Daybooks, 1750–1752 and 1764–1766
, (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Library Microfilm Publications, 1967), Segment 2, folio 202. The text is described as “Sali’s [
sic
]
Koran
” that was “interspersed among his purchases of law books in 1764 and 1765” by Frank L. Dewey,
Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986), 14. See also James Gilreath and Douglas L. Wilson, eds.,
Thomas Jefferson’s Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order
(Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1989), 58; Kevin J. Hayes, “How Thomas Jefferson Read the Qur’an,”
Early American Literature
39, no. 2 (2004): 247; Kevin J. Hayes,
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 9, 130, 201, 258–59, 316; E. Millicent Sowerby, ed.,
Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson
, 5 vols. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1952–53) 2:90, catalog #1457.
    2. The original
Gazette
entry has after his name the word “Note,” which appears but indicates no further information.
    3. George Sale, trans.,
The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the Most Approved Commentators, to which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse
, 2 vols. (London: L. Hawes, W. Clarke, R. Collins, and T. Wilcox, 1764), Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. I will refer to Jefferson’s first volume of the Qur’an through xvi as Sale, “To the Reader,” or “Preliminary Discourse,” or “To the Right Honourable John Lord Carteret (Dedication),”
Koran (1764).
All other references to “To the Reader” or “Preliminary Discourse” refer to the 1734 first-edition facsimile of a Harvard manuscript in one volume, George Sale, trans.,
The Koran
(New York: Garland, 1984), cited hereafter as Sale, “To the Reader,” or “Preliminary Discourse,”
Koran (1734).
There are no substantial differences between the two editions, except that Jefferson’s version is in two volumes rather than the initial one.
    4. Arnoud Vrolijk, “Sale, George (b. in or after 1696–d. 1736),” in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, 58 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 48:685–87. Vrolijk asserts that 1746 was the second edition in opposition to 1764, as stated by Sebastian R. Prange, “Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an,”
Saudi Aramco World
62, no. 4 (July/August 2011): 5. Four editions are mentioned, without dates, by Hartmut Bobzin, “Translations of the Qur’an,” in
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an
, ed. Jane D. McAuliffe, 6 vols. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006), 5:348.
    5. My thanks for this important reference belong to two University of Texas at Austin graduate students: Sharon Silzell, whose own research interest in the Qur’an alerted me to the importance of this reference, which she heard about from her graduate colleague Ben Breen. He located the citation while researching for Professors James Sidbury of Rice University and Cassandra Pybus of the University of Sydney. I am grateful to the latter two historians for allowing me to cite this document, headed “Property Taken from Dr. James Bryden by the British Troops,