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001 2014371672
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050 00 $aBP173.6$b.A4297 2013
100 1 $aAkyol, Mustafa,$d1972-$eauthor.
245 10 $aIslam without extremes :$ba Muslim case for liberty /$cMustafa Akyol.
264 1 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c2013.
300 $a364 pages :$bmaps ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published: 2011. Reprinted with a new epilogue by the author.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Part I: 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 -- Part II: The modern era. The Ottoman revival -- Romans, Herodians, and Zealots -- The Turkish march to Islamic liberalism -- Part III: Signposts on the liberal road. Freedom from the state -- Freedom to sin -- Freedom from Islam -- Epilogue.
520 $aIslam without Extremes presents a provocative manifesto for an interpretation of Islam that synthesises liberal ideas and respect for the Islamic tradition. With an eye sympathetic to Western liberalism and Islamic theology, Mustafa Akyol traces the roots of political Islam. The years following the death of Muhammad saw an intellectual "war of ideas" rage between rationalist, flexible schools of Islam and the more dogmatic, rigid ones. The traditionalists won, fostering perceptions of Islam as antithetical to modernity. However, Akyol traces a flourishing of liberalism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and explores the unique "Islamo-liberal synthesis" of present-day Turkey. Only by accepting a secular state, he asserts, can Islamic societies thrive. Persuasive and inspiring, Islam without Extremes offers an intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and religious, political, economic and social freedoms.
650 0 $aIslam and state.
650 0 $aSecularism$zIslamic countries.
650 0 $aLiberty$xReligious aspects$xIslam.
650 0 $aLiberalism$zIslamic countries.