October 10, 2024 4:28PM # “Mustafa Akyol Is an Incorrigible Optimist”: Review of *The Islamic Moses* in *The Tablet* By [Mustafa Akyol](https://www.cato.org/people/mustafa-akyol) --- SHARE Listen to this article Generated with [ ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io/) AI technology. Loading the [Elevenlabs Text to Speech](https://elevenlabs.io/text-to-speech) AudioNative Player... The British Catholic magazine [*The Tablet*](https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/24887/two-peoples-one-prophet) just ran an eloquent review of my new book, [*The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World*](https://www.cato.org/blog/islamic-moses-key-judeo-islamic-tradition). Penned by [Bruce Clark](https://x.com/bruceclark7), the longtime religion reporter for *The Economist*, and titled “[Two Peoples, One Prophet](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-10/Two%20peoples%2C%20one%20prophet.pdf),” the review highlights some key themes of the book and points to additional dimensions. Clark’s description of what I do—and what I hope to do!—is wisely accurate: > “Mustafa Akyol is an incorrigible optimist. As a practising Muslim and a well-regarded member of the commentariat in Washington DC, the Turkish writer and thinker has been indefatigable in making the case for the compatibility of things many have called incompatible. > > A senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington DC, and a visiting lecturer at the Jesuit-run Boston College, Akyol has argued for a benign symbiosis between secular governance and open-ended rational enquiry on one hand and revealed religion on the other. He also advocates the possibility not just of tolerance but of fruitful co-existence between the monotheistic faiths.” Read the entire [review here](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-10/Two%20peoples%2C%20one%20prophet.pdf). ##### Related Tags [Global Freedom](https://www.cato.org/global-freedom) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).