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Islam without Extremes - A Muslim Case for Liberty (Hardcover)
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Islam without Extremes - A Muslim Case for Liberty (Hardcover)
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From furious reactions to the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad to the
suppression of women, news from the Muslim world begs the question:
is Islam incompatible with freedom? With an eye sympathetic to
Western liberalism and Islamic theology, Mustafa Akyol traces the
ideological and historical roots of political Islam. The years
following Muhammad's passing in 632 AD saw an intellectual "war of
ideas" rage between rationalist, flexible schools of Islam and the
more dogmatic, rigid ones. The traditionalist school won out,
fostering perceptions of Islam as antithetical to modernity.
However, through his careful reexamination of the currents of
Muslim thought, Akyol discovers a flourishing of liberalism in the
nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the unique "Islamo-liberal
synthesis" of present-day Turkey. Only by accepting a secular
state, he powerfully asserts, can Islamic societies thrive.
Persuasive and inspiring, Islam without Extremes offers a
desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of
Islam and religious, political, economic, and social freedoms.
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