“When Ala-ud-din Khilji, a fourteenth-century Muslim ruler in India, wanted to overtax his wealthy Hindu subjects, he was dissuaded by his top… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“The answer lay not in faith but in another factor that created trouble for Islam from the very beginning: political power.” — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“The medieval Islamic world . . . offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“If the prophet's political mission will be seen as normative for Muslims, the pluralist and even the "secular" nature of the charter… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“As Islamic liberalism waned, and resistance arose against the West and its influence, that very resistance started to replace genuine religiosity as… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“Saladin even paid for the ransom of some of the Franks, as his personal almsgiving. The Christians were so positively impressed by… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“In his Epistle on Free Will, the leader of the Qadaris, an ascetic scholar named Hasan al-Basri, openly challenged Umayyad caliph Ibn… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“Liberal politics are incompatible with . . . a [religious] community, unless it is further believed that the individual members of the… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“a nun in the tenth century was so impressed with Cordoba, a city in then–Muslim-ruled Spain, that she called it “the ornament… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“Other problems in the Shariah, such as misogyny, come from the fact that Islamic law incorporated a great many medieval attitudes, customs,… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“Gerber, who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman court decisions, points to examples of Ottoman muftis (official jurists) who, despite being paid by the government,… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“As Islamic liberalism waned, and resistance arose against the West and its influence, that very resistance started to replace genuine religiosity as the basis… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it. — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“The medieval Islamic world . . . offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors. —Bernard… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“According to Gerber, the Shariah principle here was unmistakably individualist: “The rights of the state are depicted as opposed to the rights of the… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“Moreover, unlike the classical period, in which the Shariah was a check on the powers of the executive, it now became an instrument of… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“The Qur’an promoted work and trade and defined commercial profit as “God’s bounty.”38 The Prophet, himself a merchant, is on the record with such… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“The Prophet brought a message relevant for all ages, in other words, but he lived a life of his own age.” — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“Other problems in the Shariah, such as misogyny, come from the fact that Islamic law incorporated a great many medieval attitudes, customs, and traditions… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“The Christians’ “exaggerated fear of sex” continued until modern times, whereas Islamdom remained more sex-friendly until, again, modern times. Even the more conservative scholars… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
“Some liberal theorists have seen a parallelism between this function of Islamic law and the “natural law” tradition of Europe, on which the liberal… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning. — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share
![“Liberal politics are incompatible with . . . a [religious] community, unless it is further believed that the individual members of the community have been endowed with reason and free will by their Creator and that they have no certain knowledge of what were/are the Creator’s intentions. —Leonard…” quote by Mustafa Akyol](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ff2/mustafa-akyol-15064_islam_liberal-politics-are-incompatible-with-a_1549946.png)
