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…mehr
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.
MUSTAFA AKYOL is a regular contributing opinion writer for The New York Times since 2013, covering matters of Islam in the modern world. His earlier books, Islam without Extremes (2011) and The Islamic Jesus (2017), have been reviewed and praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and the Economist. Islam without Extremes was long-listed for the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize literary prize, while being banned in Malaysia for challenging the ¿religion police.¿
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CONTENTS A NIGHT WITH THE RELIGION POLICE A Visit to `the Inquisition `No Compulsion and Its Limits A Matter of Enlightenment A SELF-MADE MAN: HAYY IBN YAQZAN An Individual Path to Wisdom A Disappointment with the Religious `The Inward Light in the West WHY THEOLOGY MATTERS How It All Began Are Tyrants Predestined by God? A Theology of Justice, Freedom & Reason The Birth of Muslim Philosophy The Fideist Counter-Attack A Soldier-Like Obedience ISLAM S EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA Divine Command and Human Reason The Gap on Husn and Qubh What Does the Qur an Say? Making Sense of Abraham s Knife The Ash arite Victory and Its Aftermath HOW WE LOST MORALITY A Case of Immoral Piety Two Measures of Legitimacy The Over-Inclusive World of Fatwas The Shaky Grounds of Conscience The Need For a Moral Revival HOW WE LOST UNIVERSALISM Two Views of Human Nature Lessons of Slavery and Abolition Human Rights vs Islamic Rights? Islamist Strategies: Rejection, Apology & Instrumentalism HOW THE SHARIA STAGNATED Inheritance, Women and Justice The Decline of R ay The Theory of Maqasid and Its Limits A New Epistemology HOW WE LOST THE SCIENCES The First Cause and Other Causes The Rise and Fall of Muslim Science What is Geometry Good for? Reason, Causality and Ottoman Reform A Leap of Reason THE LAST MAN STANDING: IBN RUSHD The Religious Case for Philosophy The Incoherence of Ash arism The Philosopher s Sharia A Reasonable View on Jihad A Progressive Take on Women A Precursor to Free Speech A Tragic Loss The Jewish Secret WHY WE LOST REASON, REALLY Who Established the Establishment? The `Anarchy of the Mütazila `Political Science of the Philosophers Ibn Khaldun, States and Taxes The Ash ari Leniency to Despotism The Divine Rights of Muslim Rulers From Earthly Despots to Heavenly God BACK TO MECCA A Contextual Scripture Dealing with Arab Patriarchy An Interactive Scripture What Islam Initially Asked for The Shift in Medina The Statization of Islam The Abrogation of Mecca The Uses and Abuses of Fitna FREEDOM MATTERS I: HISBAH How To Beat Slackers and Pour Wine The Evolution of the Muhtasib A Matter of `Right and Wrong The Costs of Imposed Religion FREEDOM MATTERS II: APOSTASY Two Suspicious Hadiths The Uses of Killing Apostates Accepting the Golden Rule FREEDOM MATTERS III: BLASPHEMY How the Qur an Counters Blasphemy A Dead Poets Society? No Compulsion in Religion Seriously THE THEOLOGY OF TOLERANCE The Wisdom in `Doubting and `Postponing `Preachers, Not Judges The Myth of the `Saved Sect Non-Muslims in Muslim Eyes Who the Kafir Really Is The Rings of Nathan the Wise EPILOGUE
CONTENTS A NIGHT WITH THE RELIGION POLICE A Visit to `the Inquisition `No Compulsion and Its Limits A Matter of Enlightenment A SELF-MADE MAN: HAYY IBN YAQZAN An Individual Path to Wisdom A Disappointment with the Religious `The Inward Light in the West WHY THEOLOGY MATTERS How It All Began Are Tyrants Predestined by God? A Theology of Justice, Freedom & Reason The Birth of Muslim Philosophy The Fideist Counter-Attack A Soldier-Like Obedience ISLAM S EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA Divine Command and Human Reason The Gap on Husn and Qubh What Does the Qur an Say? Making Sense of Abraham s Knife The Ash arite Victory and Its Aftermath HOW WE LOST MORALITY A Case of Immoral Piety Two Measures of Legitimacy The Over-Inclusive World of Fatwas The Shaky Grounds of Conscience The Need For a Moral Revival HOW WE LOST UNIVERSALISM Two Views of Human Nature Lessons of Slavery and Abolition Human Rights vs Islamic Rights? Islamist Strategies: Rejection, Apology & Instrumentalism HOW THE SHARIA STAGNATED Inheritance, Women and Justice The Decline of R ay The Theory of Maqasid and Its Limits A New Epistemology HOW WE LOST THE SCIENCES The First Cause and Other Causes The Rise and Fall of Muslim Science What is Geometry Good for? Reason, Causality and Ottoman Reform A Leap of Reason THE LAST MAN STANDING: IBN RUSHD The Religious Case for Philosophy The Incoherence of Ash arism The Philosopher s Sharia A Reasonable View on Jihad A Progressive Take on Women A Precursor to Free Speech A Tragic Loss The Jewish Secret WHY WE LOST REASON, REALLY Who Established the Establishment? The `Anarchy of the Mütazila `Political Science of the Philosophers Ibn Khaldun, States and Taxes The Ash ari Leniency to Despotism The Divine Rights of Muslim Rulers From Earthly Despots to Heavenly God BACK TO MECCA A Contextual Scripture Dealing with Arab Patriarchy An Interactive Scripture What Islam Initially Asked for The Shift in Medina The Statization of Islam The Abrogation of Mecca The Uses and Abuses of Fitna FREEDOM MATTERS I: HISBAH How To Beat Slackers and Pour Wine The Evolution of the Muhtasib A Matter of `Right and Wrong The Costs of Imposed Religion FREEDOM MATTERS II: APOSTASY Two Suspicious Hadiths The Uses of Killing Apostates Accepting the Golden Rule FREEDOM MATTERS III: BLASPHEMY How the Qur an Counters Blasphemy A Dead Poets Society? No Compulsion in Religion Seriously THE THEOLOGY OF TOLERANCE The Wisdom in `Doubting and `Postponing `Preachers, Not Judges The Myth of the `Saved Sect Non-Muslims in Muslim Eyes Who the Kafir Really Is The Rings of Nathan the Wise EPILOGUE
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