On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Christopher de Bellaigue over the topic of the Islamic Enlightenment. Christopher de Bellaigue has worked as a journalist in south Asia and the Middle East, writing for the Economist, the Guardian, and the New York Review of Books. He is the award-winning author of four books,and author of The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times.