Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...

This is understood as a prohibition of using animal and human forms in texts, textiles and architecture ... to embellish both religious and secular art in the Islamic world, and often appeared in ...

Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. Yet, Muslims throughout history ...

(See an NRO Q&A with Akyol on this book here ... defined the way we look at our sacred texts. Muslim often take pride in the “golden age” of Islam, the medieval era when the Muslim world ...