Mustafa Akyol

Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times . A Turkish journalist and author, his work focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity, and he has worked for more than a decade as an opinion columnist for Hurriyet Daily News, and the Middle East focused Al -Mon i tor .com. Akyol is the author of The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the...See more

Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times . A Turkish journalist and author, his work focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity, and he has worked for more than a decade as an opinion columnist for Hurriyet Daily News, and the Middle East focused Al -Mon i tor .com. Akyol is the author of The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims (2017, St. Martin's Press), Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty (2013, W. W. Norton & Company), and Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance (April 2021, St. Martin's Essentials). See less