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About Islam

Arolda Elbasani (EUI): Governing Islam in Plural Societies: Religious Freedom, State Neutrality and Traditional Heritage. How Islam shaped the Enlightenment: Jacob Soll reviews The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua. Beyond liberal Islam: Western liberalism is not the apex and terminus of human history, and it ought not to serve as the measure of Islam. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd on The Idea of the Muslim World and the global politics of religion. The new western racism: Enzo Traverso on significant similarities between today’s Islamophobia and the older anti-Semitism. Prashant Waikar on what journalists get wrong about Islam.