Hillel Fradkin is director of the Hudson Institute's Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World and co-editor (with Husain Haqqani and Eric Brown) of Current Trends in Islamist Ideology.
A review of Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam, by Fred M. Donner; and The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis, by Robert R. Reilly