Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty - Brossura

Akyol, Mustafa

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ISBN 10: 0393347249 ISBN 13: 9780393347241

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2013

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

Starred Review. Informative at every turn. --Kirkus Book Reviews

L'autore:

Mustafa Akyol lives in Istanbul and is a columnist for the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News. He has written opinion pieces for The Guardian, The Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune and Newsweek. Author website: www.thewhitepath.com

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393347249
• ISBN 13: 9780393347241
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 363