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Mustafa Akyol

Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. For several years, he served as a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, covering religion and politics in the Muslim world, and worked as an opinion columnist in the Turkish press. He is also the author of several books, including, in 2024, The Islamic Moses, and is editor of No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions: Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom.

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