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Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty

Door Mustafa Akyol

Categorie
Religie & Theologie
Boeknummer
#403985-UG26
Titel
Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty
Auteur
Akyol, Mustafa
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London/New York, NY : W.W. Norton
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
0393070867
ISBN13
9780393070866
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
A provocative manifesto for an interpretation of Islam that synthesizes liberal ideas and respect for the Islamic tradition. 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. The years following Muhammad's passing in 632 AD saw an intellectual "war of ideas" rage between rationalist, flexible schools of Islam and the more dogmatic, rigid ones. The traditionalist school won out, fostering perceptions of Islam as antithetical to modernity. However, through his careful reexamination of the currents of Muslim thought, Akyo... (Lees verder)l discovers a flourishing of liberalism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the unique "Islamo-liberal synthesis" of present-day Turkey. Only by accepting a secular state, he powerfully asserts, can Islamic societies thrive. Persuasive and inspiring, Islam without Extremes offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and religious, political, economic, and social freedoms.
Pagina's
352
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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