December 13, 2024 3:14PM # “Recovering Islam and Judaism’s Shared Golden Age”: A New Review of *The Islamic Moses* 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... A new review of my recent book, [*The Islamic Moses*](https://www.cato.org/blog/islamic-moses-key-judeo-islamic-tradition), was published today in *Religion & Liberty Online*, a publication of the Acton Institute: “[Recovering Islam and Judaism’s Shared Golden Age](https://rlo.acton.org/archives/126278-recovering-islam-and-judaisms-shared-golden-age.html).” 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*](https://rlo.acton.org/archives/126278-recovering-islam-and-judaisms-shared-golden-age.html). ##### Related Tags [Free Speech and Civil Liberties](https://www.cato.org/free-speech-civil-liberties), [Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity](https://www.cato.org/center-global-liberty-prosperity) [![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/).