Until Sept. 11, 2001, the second most famous Muslim in the Western world, after the Prophet Muhammad, was probably Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-93), universally known by his courtesy title Salah al-Din ...

Throne of the Crescent Moon was simply a pleasure to read. Many times when you are going into a novel that proclaims itself to be the "first of a series" it can feel as if it is bogged down with ...