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First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
(continued)
and Leland,
7.1
,
7.2
and Muslim “civil rights,”
aft.1
,
aft.2
New England’s Congregational Protestantism after passage of,
6.1
,
7.1
Flushing Remonstrance,
2.1
,
aft.1
Fondaco dei Turchi, Venice,
nts.1
n
32
Foster, Mr. (slave owner in Mississippi),
5.1
,
5.2
France
Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophète
in,
1.1
,
1.2
French Revolution,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
Franck, Sebastian,
2.1
,
nts.1
n
78
Franklin, Benjamin,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
freedom of religion.
See
religious freedom
;
religious tolerance
French Revolution,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
Garcia, Humberto,
2.1
,
nts.1
n
200
George III, King of England,
1.1
,
nts.1
n
114
Georgia,
5.1
,
aft.1
Golden Rule
Leland on,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
government
imagined Muslim political community in U.S.,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
7.1
tyranny identified with Muslims,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
Great Britain
expulsion of Jews,
2.1
,
2.2
,
nts.1
n
46
and Williams’s
Bloudy Tenent
,
2.1
Ground Zero Mosque
(film),
aft.1
Hamburger, Philip,
nts.1
n
120
Hammuda Bey,
6.1
,
6.2
Hayy ibn Yaqzan
(Ibn Tufayl),
2.1
,
nts.1
n
176
Hebrew Bible.
See
Old Testament
Helwys, Thomas,
2.1
,
7.1
Hemings, Elizabeth,
nts.1
n
270
Hemings, Sara “Sally,”
3.1
,
4.1
,
nts.1
n
270
heresy
Origen’s heresy,
2.1
,
2.2
religious tolerance as,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
heretics
Concerning Heretics
(Castellio),
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
tolerance for, as dissenters,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
Holland
religious tolerance in,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
Remonstrants,
nts.1
n
236
Huff, Richard Curry,
nts.1
n
120
Hutson, James,
nts.1
n
26
Ibn al-Khattab, Umar,
3.1
,
3.2
Ibn Said, Omar,
itr.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
nts.1
n
156
Ibn Tufayl, Muhammad ibn ’Abd al-Malik,
1.1
,
2.1
,
nts.1
n
176
Ibrahima Abd al-Rahman, Muslim slave,
itr.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
nts.1
n
156
immigration
Irish Catholic immigrants,
itr.1
,
7.1
Muslims,
aft.1
,
aft.2
inalienable natural rights theory,
2.1
,
7.1
infidels
and Constitution of the United States,
5.1
,
6.1
Jefferson branded as,
3.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
aft.1
,
aft.2
Jefferson on,
3.1
,
6.1
as political slur,
6.1
,
6.2
as religious slur,
1.1
,
1.2
Inquisition
Catholic Inquisition,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
and Menocchio,
2.1
,
aft.1
,
nts.1
n
15
Spanish Inquisition,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, xi
and Johnston,
5.1
,
5.2
and Muslim “civil rights,”
itr.1
,
5.1
on religious test for public office,
5.1
,
5.2
Irish Catholic immigrants,
itr.1
,
7.1
Islam
as Antichrist,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
anti-Sharia movement,
aft.1
,
aft.2
,
aft.3
as antithesis of true Christianity,
1.1
,
5.1
bismillah
,
5.1
,
5.2
Christian superiority,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
conversion to,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
aft.1
and First Amendment,
aft.1
,
aft.2
five pillars,
3.1
,
5.1
Jefferson’s negative views of,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
3.1
,
6.1
Jefferson’s positive views of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
in Jefferson’s Tripoli treaty,
6.1
,
6.2
Jefferson’s use of, to critique other religions,
3.1
,
3.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
Leland’s erroneous beliefs,
7.1
,
7.2
Muhammad,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
nts.1
n
109
and Ramadan,
3.1
,
6.1
,
nts.1
n
140
scientific discoveries,
3.1
,
3.2
Sharia law,
aft.1
,
aft.2
Stubbe on,
2.1
,
nts.1
n
200
terminology distortions,
1.1
,
nts.1
n
186
treatment of slaves,
4.1
,
nts.1
n
12
as weapon for vilifying fellow Christians,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
“Islamophilia,”
nts.1
n
211
janissaries,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
5.1
Jefferson, Thomas
accusations of being a Muslim,
itr.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
aft.1
,
aft.2
and Anglicanism,
3.1
,
3.2
as Deist,
5.1
,
6.1
and Jews,
3.1
,
nts.1
n
201
and Leland,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
Leland on,
7.1
,
7.2
letters to Tunisian ruler,
6.1
,
6.2
library of,
3.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
nts.1
n
211
and Locke,
3.1
,
3.2
and “Mammoth Cheese” from Massachusetts,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
and Muslim rights,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
6.1
Muslim slaves of,
itr.1
,
3.1
and Qur’an, ix–xi,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

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