Mustafa Akyol’s “A Sultan with Swat” (Dec. 26) ends with the suggestion that we “recover the spirit of Islamic modernity personified by the piano-playing Sufi, Abdul Hamid II.” That same Abdul Hamid ...

AL QAEDA’S STATED GOAL–to reestablish the caliphate, the political leadership of worldwide Islam embodied first in the successors of the Prophet Muhammad and most recently in the four-century rule of ...

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A view of brooch featuring the Turkish and Japanese flags of Princess Akiko of Mikasa as she visits historical Balikligol (Pool of the Sacred Fish) in Sanliurfa, Turkiye on September 19, 2025.