Book 2011

Islam without extremes

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 2011

Secularism
Liberty
Islamic countries
Islam and state
Liberalism
Islam
Middle east, religion
Religious aspects

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.