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  • Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives

    The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President

    by Jeffrey Einboden ...
    On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Washington Irving and Islam

    Critical Essays

    by Zubeda Jalalzai, Michael Stevens, Jeffrey Einboden, Tracy Hoffman, Ray Lacina, Jeffrey Scraba, Doyle Quiggle ...
    Washington Irving and Islam contributes to understanding the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, valuable not only for studies of Washington Irving, American Literature, or Islam, but also for thinking through the role Islam and the “Orient” have played in American literature and history, a critical field receiving ever-increasing attention. The global context of Irving’s ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture

    Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Jeffrey Einboden ...
    Uncovering Islam's little known yet formative impact on U.S. literary culture, this book traces genealogies of Islamic influence that span America's earliest generations, reaching from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Excavating personal appeals to Islam by pioneering national authors-Ezra Stiles, William Bentley, Washington Irving, Lydia Maria Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson-Einboden discovers Muslim ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • Islam and Romanticism

    Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson

    by Jeffrey Einboden ...
    Series series Islamic and Muslim Contributions to Culture and Civilisation
    Revealing Islam’s formative influence on literary Romanticism, this book recounts a lively narrative of religious and aesthetic exchange, mapping the impact of Muslim sources on the West’s most seminal authors. Spanning continents and centuries, the book surveys Islamic receptions that bridge Romantic periods and personalities, unfolding from Europe, to Britain, to America, embracing iconic ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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    Jefferson’s Muslim Fugitives

    The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President

    by Jeffrey Einboden ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the president, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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