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 ...

The 50 chapters in the book touch on the history of the Netherlands' relationships with the ... libraries like Leiden University Libraries serve as invaluable records of Islamic civilization's ...

[1] The calligraphic tradition, initially growing out of the demand for illuminated Qur'ans, was later used to embellish both religious and secular art in the Islamic world, and often appeared in ...