Akyol, Mustafa,  1972- <br/><br/>
Islam without extremes :  a Muslim case for liberty / 
Mustafa Akyol. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York, NY :  W.W. Norton,  c2011. 
 - 286 p. :  maps ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-329) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393070867 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Liberalism--Islamic countries.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP 173.6  / .A39 2011