Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, by Mustafa Akyol, Norton, RRP£16.99, 224 pages
The call to freedom
Review by David GardnerMustafa Akyol, a devout but liberal Muslim, finds lessons in the precepts of Koranic Islam
Why did reason and freedom eventually flourish in Christendom while it declined in the lands of Islam, where in the early Muslim centuries there had been a brilliant civilisation, scientifically advanced, commercially dynamic, literate, urban and cosmopolitan in a way a Europe trapped in the dark ages could scarcely comprehend?
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