An exciting journey into the multifaceted history of Islamic ideas, proposing an 'Islamic Enlightenment' reality today.

In his book Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol openly diagnoses the 'crisis of Islam' in the modern world and offers a perspective for the future. Delving deep into Islamic theology and sharing lessons from his personal history, he reveals how Muslims lost the universality that made them a great cultural force in earlier centuries – and what the cost was.

He emphasizes how the values often associated with the Western Enlightenment – freedom, reason, tolerance, and appreciation of science – had Islamic parallels, which were tragically sidelined in favor of more dogmatic views, often for political reasons.

Explaining complex ideas with accessible writing and storytelling, Reopening Muslim Minds revives lost perspectives from medieval Muslim thinkers to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of hot issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of speech and religion. Through the reexamination of the Quran, the revision of Sharia, and the 'deconstruction of the theological barrier' that forbids such questions, Akyol shows the way to a renewal in Islam.

Pages: 336, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm