Islam without extremes : a Muslim case for liberty / Mustafa Akyol.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : W.W. Norton, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 352 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780393347241
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Books | Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research | 297.272 A3159i 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 01 | Not For Loan | 022968 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-329) 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.