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Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

by Mustafa Akyol
Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

A bold case for Islam’s renewal

This is a thoughtful, accessible read for anyone curious about how faith and freedom can speak to each other. Akyol blends history, theology, and personal insight in a way that feels both intellectually serious and genuinely hopeful. Readers who appreciate big ideas, reformist thinking, and nuanced conversations about religion will likely find it eye-opening and energizing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

by Mustafa Akyol
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ISBN: 9781250256065
Authors: Mustafa Akyol
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Date of Publication: 2021-04-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Religion, History, Politics, Sociology, Philosophy
Related Topics: History, Social Justice, World History, Sociology, Theology, Politics, Spirituality, Asia
Goodreads rating: 4.37
(rated by 390 readers)

Description

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, 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 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 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 bold case for Islam’s renewal

This is a thoughtful, accessible read for anyone curious about how faith and freedom can speak to each other. Akyol blends history, theology, and personal insight in a way that feels both intellectually serious and genuinely hopeful. Readers who appreciate big ideas, reformist thinking, and nuanced conversations about religion will likely find it eye-opening and energizing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.