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Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty

By Mustafa Akyol

Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty

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As the Arab Spring threatens to give way to authoritarianism in Egypt and reports from Afghanistan detail widespread violence against U.S. troops and women, news from the Muslim world raises the question: Is Islam incompatible with freedom? In Islam without Extremes, Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol answers this question by revealing the little-understood roots of political Islam, which originally included both rationalist, flexible strains and more dogmatic, rigid ones. Though the rigid traditionalists won out, Akyol points to a flourishing of liberalism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the unique "Islamo-liberal synthesis" in present-day Turkey. As he powerfully asserts, only by accepting a secular state can Islamic societies thrive. Islam without Extremes offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and liberty.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2013-11-04
Publication Date:
2013-11-04
Publisher:
Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393347249
ISBN13:
9780393347241
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
305 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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