A new review of my recent book, The Islamic Moses, was published today in Religion & Liberty Online, a publication of the Acton Institute: “Recovering Islam and Judaism’s Shared Golden Age.” The writer, Farah Pandit, is a young Pakistani journalist who is currently a PhD student at Boston University. He rightly notes that my book highlights the much-forgotten “Judeo-Islamic tradition.” And he also captures why this theological and historical tradition is politically important today:
The scale of Akyol’s challenge is immense, as he confronts not just contemporary prejudices but also deeply entrenched political and cultural narratives that frame Jewish-Muslim conflict as historically inevitable. Modern discourse, shaped by some Islamists, mainstream Western media, and Middle Eastern propaganda, presents their enmity as rooted in irreconcilable theological differences and ancient tribal hatreds. Contrary to this, Akyol reveals a sophisticated tradition of cooperation that fundamentally shaped both faiths’ development.
You can read the whole review here at Religion & Liberty Online.