Zohran Mamdani yesterday became the first New York City mayor to be sworn in using a Quran.<\/p>\n
The first Muslim and South Asian mayor of the United States\u2019 biggest metropolis, Mamdani used his grandfather\u2019s Quran and a 200-year-old copy on loan from the New York Public Library (NYPL) for the private swearing-in event held at a disused subway station under Times Square.<\/p>\n
He then plans to use two copies of the Quran that belonged to his grandfather and grandmother for a daytime ceremony at New York City Hall on Friday.<\/p>\n
The historic Quran, borrowed from the library, once belonged to Arturo Schomburg, a Black historian and writer who sold his collection of 4,000 books to the NYPL in 1926. His collection became the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.<\/p>\n
Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico in the 1870s to parents of German and Afro-Caribbean descent. He later immigrated to New York and was a key player in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s \u2013 a period of intense cultural and intellectual flourishing within New York\u2019s Black community.<\/p>\n
The library praised Mamdani\u2019s decision to use Schomburg\u2019s Quran because of its connection to one of New York\u2019s \u201cmost groundbreaking scholars and for its simple, functional qualities\u201d.<\/p>\n
The small size of the Quran and its black and red ink suggest it was designed for everyday use, the library said. The edition is neither signed nor dated, but its \u201cminute naskh script and its binding, featuring a gilt-stamped medallion filled with a floral composition, suggest it was produced in Ottoman Syria in the 19th century\u201d, the library added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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