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Reopening Muslim Minds

A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

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Reopening Muslim Minds

By: Mustafa Akyol
Narrated by: Neil Shah
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In this book, 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 deep 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, including human rights, equality for women, and 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.

©2021 Mustafa Akyol (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Islam Middle East Middle Ages Human Rights Iran Africa Freedom Morality Crusade
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A very good book thank you very much I'm looking forward for the next book

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The author brings up much needed topics for reform in the islamic tradition and gives good analysis on where we went wrong in history

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