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A fascinating journey into Islam''s diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an Islamic Enlightenment' today.

In Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol frankly diagnoses the crisis of Islam' in the modern world, and offers a 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. He highlights how values often associated with Western Enlightenment freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science had Islamic counterparts, which tragically were cast aside in favour of more dogmatic views, often for political reasons.

Elucidating complex ideas with engaging prose and storytelling, Reopening Muslim Minds borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of burning issues: human rights, equality for women,

Reopening Muslim Minds

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      Publisher Swift Press
      Published 1/16/2025
      ISBN-13 9781800751736
      978-1800751736
      ISBN-10 1800751737
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society Social groups: religious groups and communities

      Description

      Book 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 frankly diagnoses the crisis of Islam' in the modern world, and offers a 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. He highlights how values often associated with Western Enlightenment freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science had Islamic counterparts, which tragically were cast aside in favour of more dogmatic views, often for political reasons.

      Elucidating complex ideas with engaging prose and storytelling, Reopening Muslim Minds borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of burning issues: human rights, equality for women,

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