Islam Without Extremes A Muslim Case for Liberty

Name: Islam Without Extremes A Muslim Case for Liberty
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ISBN: 9780393347241

ISBN-10: 0393347249

ISBN-13: 9780393347241

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mustafa Akyol

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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, newsfrom 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…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Mustafa Akyol lives in Istanbul and is a columnist for the Turkish newspapers Hï¿½rriyet Daily News and Star. He has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and Newsweek.



Glossary


Introduction



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


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index