New York Mayor Mamdani Swears on the Quran: First Mayor to Do So

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in shortly after midnight on the Quran , Islam's holiest book, becoming the first New York mayor to do so.

One of the Korans belonged to the grandfather, the other – on loan from the New York Public Library – to Arturo Schomburg, an African-American writer and historian.

For the second public ceremony in the next few hours at City Hall, Mamdani—the first Muslim citizen of the Big Apple—will once again use his grandfather's Quran and one that belonged to his grandmother.

The use of the Koran that belonged to Schomburg, whose work shaped the Harlem Renaissance, underscores the diversity of faiths, races, and ethnicities that characterizes the city.

(Unioneonline)