Mustafa Akyol

Reopening Muslim Minds (eBook, ePUB)

A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250256072
• Artikelnr.: 59787318

Autorenporträt

MUSTAFA AKYOL is a senior fellow on Islam and modernity at the Cato Institute, and a senior lecturer at Boston College. For eight years, he was a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, covering Islam and contemporary affairs. His earlier books, Reopening Muslim Minds (2021), The Islamic Jesus (2017), and Islam without Extremes (2011) 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."

Inhaltsangabe

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 Mu'tazila
'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