Key Highlights
- In an X post, Mamdani wrote the Quran belonged to an 18th-century Black scholar and revolutionary activist named Arturo Schomburg.
- "When I swore in at midnight at the old City Hall subway station last week, I had the honor of doing so on Arturo Schomburg’s 18th-century Qur'an," said Mamdani.
- He said that "this manuscript was copied in Ottoman Syria, and is written in black ink with red highlighting the text's divisions — no ornate decoration, it belonged to the everyday reader, and it now belongs to all New Yorkers as part of our City's next chapter." HOCHUL ORDERS NY LANDMARKS, INCLUDING ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, LIT GREEN FOR MUSLIM AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH A display of the "the people's Qur'an," showing the Quran used in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's swearing-in ceremony.
- (New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani via X @NYCMayor) The new mayor shared a photo of the library display, which features slogans such as "The People’s Qur’an" and "Making history at City Hall."In addition to the book, the display features an image of Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, at his private New Year’s midnight oath-of-office ceremony, in which he was sworn in by New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
- The display also features a close-up of the Quran with Mamdani’s hand on it as well as an image of Schomburg.
