Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday that one of the Qur’ans he used to swear in as the city’s first Muslim leader will be kept on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library.In an X post, Mamdani wrote that the Qur’an 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 h...

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