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Einboden's groundbreaking work on the presence of Muslims in the United States uncovers previously unknown documents related to Thomas Jefferson and his circle. Einboden has developed a fresh and timely narrative that will stimulate conversation among a wide range of readers. * Jeffrey Barbeau, Professor of Theology, Wheaton College * Einboden's adept sleuthing deciphers lost Islamic sources that recircuit the multilingual geographies of Jefferson's career. The scholarship embraids together wide-ranging conjunctions that dramatize how a deeper liberty requires the struggle to try to know the fugitive in all its human forms. * Timothy Marr, author ofThe Cultural Roots of American Islamicism * Taking as its point of departure previously unpublished letters by enslaved Muslims in America,Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives provides new perspectives on early America's engagement with Arabic and with Islam. Along the way it takes fascinating detours into American experiments with cyphers and secret codes, hypotheses about possible links between Arab and Native American cultures, and the bizarre story of how two Africans in Kentucky came to be accused of being spies. An erudite and intriguing study. * Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University * Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives is a fascinating exploration of intersections between the lives of West African Muslim slaves and leading early American intellectuals. Using extraordinary and rare Arabic and English archival evidence, Einboden masterfully reconstructs the history of a number of these slaves, the circulation of their writings, as well as their impact on pivotal figures of early American history. * Asma Sayeed, author of Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam * [...] with such an enthralling premise as Arabic slave writings in the early United States - including archival jewels unearthed for the first time - the book makes a new contribution despite the odds. Einboden reveals a bank of forgotten moments tournants in which Islam and Arabic shaped America's founding. * Kevin Blankinship, UVA, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Hedgehog Review *

Einboden's groundbreaking work on the presence of Muslims in the United States uncovers previously unknown documents related to Thomas Jefferson and his circle. Einboden has developed a fresh and timely narrative that will stimulate conversation among a wide range of readers. * Jeffrey Barbeau, Professor of Theology, Wheaton College and David Lobina * Einboden's adept sleuthing deciphers lost Islamic sources that recircuit the multilingual geographies of Jefferson's career. The scholarship embraids together wide-ranging conjunctions that dramatize how a deeper liberty requires the struggle to try to know the fugitive in all its human forms. * Timothy Marr, author ofThe Cultural Roots of American Islamicism * Taking as its point of departure previously unpublished letters by enslaved Muslims in America,Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives provides new perspectives on early America's engagement with Arabic and with Islam. Along the way it takes fascinating detours into American experiments with cyphers and secret codes, hypotheses about possible links between Arab and Native American cultures, and the bizarre story of how two Africans in Kentucky came to be accused of being spies. An erudite and intriguing study. * Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University * Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives is a fascinating exploration of intersections between the lives of West African Muslim slaves and leading early American intellectuals. Using extraordinary and rare Arabic and English archival evidence, Einboden masterfully reconstructs the history of a number of these slaves, the circulation of their writings, as well as their impact on pivotal figures of early American history. * Asma Sayeed, author of Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam * [...] with such an enthralling premise as Arabic slave writings in the early United States - including archival jewels unearthed for the first time - the book makes a new contribution despite the odds. Einboden reveals a bank of forgotten moments tournants in which Islam and Arabic shaped America's founding. * Kevin Blankinship, Hedgehog Review, (UVA, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) *

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Jeffrey Einboden is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and a 2017 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Einboden's most recent books include The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture (Oxford, 2016) and Islam and Romanticism (2014). He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a 2011 award supporting Einboden's recovery, translation and teaching of Arabic slave writings.

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