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Laffite
French pirate He led a band of privateers that preyed on Spanish ships and smuggled goods and slaves through New Orleans, where the group lived on islands south of the city. In the War of 1812 the British offered Laffite $30,000 for his allegiance in their planned attack on the city. He warned Louisiana officials of the attack but was not believed. He then offered his aid to Gen. A. Jackson, who accepted Laffite's help in the Battle of New Orleans. After the war Laffite returned to privateering against the Spanish.
Laffitte
French banker and politician. He became a partner in a Perregaux banking house in 1800 and head of the firm in 1804. As governor of the Bank of France (1814-19), he raised large sums of money for the provisional government in 1814 and for Louis XVIII during the Hundred Days. He saved Paris from a financial crisis in 1818. An early partisan of a constitutional monarchy under Louis-Philippe, he did much to secure Louis-Philippe's accession to the throne, and briefly served as premier (1830-31) in the July monarchy.
tafsir
Science of explanation and interpretation of the Quran. It arose after the death of Muhammad to deal with ambiguity, variant readings, defective texts, and apparent contradictions in the scripture. Starting from mere personal speculation, tafsir developed into a system of systematic exegesis of the Quran's text, proceeding verse by verse and sometimes word by word. Early stages relied on the Hadith, later giving rise to a dogmatic type of tafsir. The most comprehensive tafsir was compiled by al-Tabari. Muslim modernists employ tafsir as a vehicle for their reformist ideas.
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