There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli.
Thats not entirely true. He first got the Koran while studying for the Bar exam in his early 20's. And it was due to the fact one of his favorite books made mention of the Koran ??Of the Law of Nature and Nations?. It also lead to him learning to speak Arabic. He was more so interested in the law aspect of it then anything else. He didn't get the Koran just to goto war.


Where did you get this article? For the fact it says "Book of jihad" instead of Koran I'm gona assume it came from some anti-Muslim site. Don't be a racial bigot like Bong.