[ April 18, 2026 ]
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the full-circle symbolism is stark: a city scarred by jihadist terror inaugurates its mayor with a Quran oath. A dire omen for a city already in freefall.. New Yorkers could hardly have imagined this day.
“It’s a highly symbolic choice because we’re about to have a Muslim mayor swearing in using the Quran but also a mayor who was born on the African continent, in Uganda,” NYPL’s curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Hiba Abid told the newspaper.
Zohran Mamdani will become first NYC mayor sworn in on Quran when he takes oath of office
By Hannah Fierick and David Propper, NY Post, Dec. 31, 2025:
ADVERTISEMENTZohran Mamdani will be the first New York City mayor to be sworn in on a Quran when he takes office at midnight on Jan. 1, officials said.
Mamdani, who will be the first Muslim to lead City Hall, will use at least three different sets of Islam’s holy book to take the oath of office during his private and public ceremonies Thursday, his spokesperson said.
The far-left pol is expected to use his grandfather’s Quran and one that belonged to black writer and historian Arturo Schomburg, lent by the New York Public Library, during a private midnight ceremony at the abandoned Old City Hall subway station.
State Attorney General Letitia James will swear in Mamdani at midnight while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will deliver the oath of office to the democratic socialist later in the day.
Recent mayors have used a variety of different religious texts with personal meaning and historical significance when getting sworn into office.
ADVERTISEMENTMamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, didn’t shy away from discussing his religious faith on the campaign trail.
“The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated as any other New Yorker, and yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive,” the progressive said in October as he faced criticism for posing in a photo with a controversial imam.
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