Christopher de Bellaigue is the author of ‘The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason’ (Vintage). ‘The Lion House’, the first of a trilogy about the life and court of Suleyman the Magnificent, will be published in March.

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