Islam without extremes
Subtitle: a Muslim case for liberty
By: Mustafa Akyol
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393070866
Subjects: Islamic countries; Liberalism; Islam and state; Secularism; Liberty; Islam
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings. A light unto tribes; title: The enlightenment of the -orient; title: The medieval war of ideas (i); title: The medieval war of ideas (ii); title: The desert beneath the iceberg; title: The modern era. The Ottoman revival; title: Romans, herodians, and zealots; title: The Turkish march to Islamic liberalism; title: Signposts on the liberal road.  Freedom from the state; title: Freedom to sin; title: Freedom from Islam.