author | Insight Turkey https://www.insightturkey.com/ author EN authorIn Mustafa Akyol’s book Islam With- out Extremes, the author takes up the challenge to confront the many misconceptions and false portrayals of Islam as inherently conservative or violent by tracing back Islam’s history, the development of political Islam, and offering his own vision for a modern and more liberal political Islam. Throughout his writings, he is implicitly and explicitly guided by the question why a dominantly conservative brand of Islam is nowadays present in many governments or societies. Yet in the course of the book, he contrasts (formerly) authoritarian and secularist Turkey with other Islamic countries, concluding that Islam may not be the reason for authoritarianism but that other factors are at play.https://www.insightturkey.com/author/sarah-wagner/islam-without-extremes-a-muslim-case-for-libertyhttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/sarah-wagner/islam-without-extremes-a-muslim-case-for-libertySun, 01 Jul 2012 14:06:00 GMT