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.
9780393347241
2011014936
015820598 Uk
Islam and state
Secularism----Islam countries
Liberty----Religious aspects----Islam
Liberalism----Islamic countries
BP173.6 / .A4297 2011
297 AKY
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.
9780393347241
2011014936
015820598 Uk
Islam and state
Secularism----Islam countries
Liberty----Religious aspects----Islam
Liberalism----Islamic countries
BP173.6 / .A4297 2011
297 AKY