“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
“The medieval Islamic world . . . offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its… — 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
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
“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
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
“Liberal politics are incompatible with . . . a [religious] community, unless it is further believed that the individual members of the… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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 Image
“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 Image
I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it. — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. — 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 change of… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
