The new mayor of New York Mamdani swears on the Koran, he’s the primary to take action | EUROtoday

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Zohran Mamdani took the oath of workplace shortly after midnight on the Quran, Islam’s holiest ebook, changing into the primary New York mayor to take action. One of the Korans belonged to his grandfather, the opposite – on mortgage from the New York Public Library – to Arturo Schomburg, an African-American author and historian.

For the second public ceremony within the subsequent few hours at City Hall, Mamdani – the primary Muslim citizen of the Big Apple – will as soon as once more use his grandfather’s Koran and one which belonged to his grandmother. The use of the Koran that belonged to Schomburg, an Afro-Latin author whose work formed the Harlem Renaissance, highlights the range of faiths, races and ethnicities that characterizes town.