Islam without extremes : a Muslim case for liberty

Akyol, Mustafa , 1972 -

Islam without extremes : a Muslim case for liberty / Mustafa Akyol - New York : W.W. Norton , c2011 - 364 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The beginnings. A light unto tribes -- The enlightenment of the Orient -- The medieval war of ideas (I) -- The medieval war of ideas (II) -- The desert beneath the iceberg -- The modern era. The Ottoman revival -- Romans, Herodians, and Zealots -- The Turkish march to Islamic liberalism -- Signposts on the liberal road. Freedom from the state -- Freedom to sin -- Freedom from Islam.

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.

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Islam and state
Secularism----Islam countries
Liberty----Religious aspects----Islam
Liberalism----Islamic countries

BP173.6 / .A4297 2011

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