Zohran Mamdani’s three inauguration Qurans have deep personal ties and ties to American history. For the private swearing in at midnight, Mamdani selected a Quran from Arturo Schomburg, the Black writer and historian, housed in the collections of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. According to Hiba Abid, the @nypl curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, the Schomburg Quran is deeply symbolic, because Schomburg was an Afro-Latino writer whose wor