Detail of "Expansion of the Universe" by Muslim artist Salma Arastu of Berkeley, California -- a contemporary interpretation of a passage from the Quran.

By Barbara Falconer Newhall

In the late 1990′s, Georgetown professor John L. Esposito was working on a book about the future of Islam. After 9/11 he put that book aside in favor of more pressing topics – Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam (2002) and Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (2009) are just two.

Now, nearly a decade later, Esposito finally returns to his subject [Read more...]