{"product_id":"islam-without-extremes-a-muslim-case-for-liberty","title":"Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIslam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMustafa Akyol\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393070866\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom 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, Akyol 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, \u003cem\u003eIslam without Extremes\u003c\/em\u003e offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and religious, political, economic, and social freedoms.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty | Mustafa Akyol | Hardcover | 9780393070866 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks G 1766765","offer_id":49377027555480,"sku":"1766765","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51A1hqbsJxL.jpg?v=1783026285","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/islam-without-extremes-a-muslim-case-for-liberty","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}