TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akyol,Mustafa
TI  - Islam without extremes: a Muslim case for liberty 
SN  - 0393070867
AV  - BP 173.6 .A39 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Islamic countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-329) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -