"Blessed be Allah, most fair": Ezra Stiles' Arabic revolutions -- "I most sincerely wish an Arabic manuscript of the Koran": -- William Bentley's Islamic archives -- "Intermingled with texts of the Koran": Washington Irving's Moorish renovations -- "To look at the Koran through his spectacles": The Muslim progress of Lydia Maria Child -- "He knows the Koran by heart": The Sufi circulations of Ralph Waldo Emerson.