Why I Learned to Love Islamic Mysticism

Lately I’ve been promoting a novel, which means that interviewers sometimes ask me what I’ve been reading. I’m obliged to tell them that for the past year I’ve read virtually nothing outside of a single subject: Islamic philosophy. This has been doubly surprising in that, firstly, I’m not a Muslim, and secondly, only a year and a half ago, I’m not sure I even knew there was such a thing as Islamic philosophy.