TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akyol,Mustafa
TI  - Islam without extremes: a Muslim case for liberty 
SN  - 9780393070866 (hardcover) 
AV  - BP173.6 .A4297 2011
U1  - 297.2/72 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Liberalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42704
ER  -