Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781250832511
- Book Title
- Reopening Muslim Minds : a Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
- Publisher
- St. Martin’s Press
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Author
- Mustafa Akyol
- Genre
- Religion, Social Science
- Topic
- Islam / Theology, Islamic Studies, Islam / History, Comparative Religion
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
Reopening Muslim Minds – paperback Akyol, Mustafa
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin’s Press
ISBN-10
1250832519
ISBN-13
9781250832511
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14050089245
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reopening Muslim Minds : a Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Islam / Theology, Islamic Studies, Islam / History, Comparative Religion
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Religion, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
297.09
Synopsis
A fascinating journey into Islam’s diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an “Islamic Enlightenment” today In Reopening Muslim Minds , Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times , both diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment — freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science — had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in favor of more dogmatic views, often for political ends. Elucidating complex ideas with engaging prose and storytelling, Reopening Muslim Minds borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future., A fascinating journey into Islam’s diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an “Islamic Enlightenment” today In Reopening Muslim Minds , Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times , both diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment — freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science — had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in favor of more dogmatic views, often for political ends. Elucidating complex ideas with engaging prose and storytelling, Reopening Muslim Minds borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future. iew on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future.iew on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future.iew on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future., In Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol frankly diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world and offers an authentic way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology and sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries-and what the cost has been. Akyol borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers such as Ibn Rushd to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of burning issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. By rereading the Qur’an, revisiting the Shari’ah, and “dismantling the theological roadblock” that disallows such questioning, Akyol shows the path to the much-discussed renewal in Islam. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
BP52.A3635 2022
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