Islam without Extremes
A Muslim Case for Liberty
(Sprache: Englisch)
With an eye sympathetic to Western liberalism and Islamic theology, Mustafa Akyol traces the roots of political Islam.
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With an eye sympathetic to Western liberalism and Islamic theology, Mustafa Akyol traces the roots of political Islam.
Klappentext zu „Islam without Extremes “
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol lives in Istanbul and is a columnist for the Turkish newspapers Hürriyet Daily News and Star. He has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and Newsweek.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mustafa Akyol
- 2013, 368 Seiten, Maße: 14,1 x 20,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Norton
- ISBN-10: 0393347249
- ISBN-13: 9780393347241
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Islam without Extremes “
"...Mr. Akyol offers a delightfully original take on Turkey and on the prospects for liberal democracy in the broader Islamic Middle East." The Wall Street Journal "...a provocative manifesto for an interpretation of Islam which synthesises liberal ideas with respect for the Islamic tradition." The Bookseller "This book is the product of wide reading and reflection, and written with clarity and verve light years away from the clotted prose of much Islamic theory..." Financial Times
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