Mustafa Akyol
Books by Mustafa Akyol
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Reopening Muslim Minds
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The Islamic Jesus
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Islam without extremes
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Quotes by Mustafa Akyol
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The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
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There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
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Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.
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It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.
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What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
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