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Mustafa Akyol, author, columnist, and speaker. The Thinking Muslim,” a popular podcast, defined Akyol as “probably the most notable Muslim modernist and reformer. Mustafa Akyol comes on The Pakistan Experience for a thorough discussion on Islam, Modernity, Secularism, Liberalism and the Reopening of the Muslim Mind. On this deep dive discussion, we discuss if Erdogan is leading Turkey down a dark path, Islamic principles, the problem of literalism, Muslim thinkers, Apostasy, Blasphemy Laws and understanding Islamic jurisprudence. You can download Mustafa Akyol's book, "Why, as a Muslim, I defend Liberty" for free here: https://www.libertarianism.org/books/why-muslim-i-defend-liberty Mustafa is also the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English. He became a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times in 2013. He is mainly famous in the western world for his arguments that Islam is highly compatible with classical liberalism and Enlightenment values, and that Islamic practice and the governance of Muslim-majority countries should be reformed along those lines similar to what previously happened in Christian-majority Europe. The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperience And Please stay in touch: https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1 https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperience https://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperience The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/ Twitter.com/shehzad89 Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Erdogan's Turkey 8:40 Islam and democracy 13:40 Concubines 15:30 Can Islam change? 22:00 The problem of literalism 27:00 Muslim thinkers 30:00 Individual reason, conscience and morality 33:40 Apostasy 43:00 Blasphemy laws 49:30 Islam as a political system and secularism 1:00:00 The fight about who the true Muslim is 1:04:00 Understanding Ahadith and upholding the Quran 1:17:00 Are these ideas rethinking Islam? 1:28:00 There is no punishment for drinking in Islam 1:30:30 The laws against Zina in Pakistan 1:34:30 Imran Khan and his ideas about Riyasat-e-Madina

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Mustafa Akyol, the author of "Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance". Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. Since 2013, he has also been a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, covering politics and religion in the Muslim world. He is the author of Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance (2021), The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims (2017), and Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty (2011). Islam without Extremes was praised by The Financial Times as “a forthright and elegant Muslim defense of freedom” and was longlisted for the 2012 Lioner Gelber Prize. It has been published in Turkish, Malay, Indonesian, and unofficially in Urdu. (It was subsequently banned in Malaysia in 2017 after Akyol’s short arrest by the country’s “religion police” merely because Akyol delivered a public lecture defending religious freedom. The book’s banned Malay edition is now freely available on the Cato Institute website.) The Islamic Jesus received praise from The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Economist, and has been published also in Turkish and Croatian. Before joining the Cato Institute in 2018, Akyol worked for more than a decade as an opinion columnist for two Turkish newspapers, Hurriyet Daily News and Star — until they were co‐​opted and transformed into pro‐​government propaganda outlets. His articles have also appeared in a wide range of other publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Al​-Mon​i​tor​.com, First Things, The Forward, The Weekly Standard, The Financial Times, The London Times, The Guardian, The Washington Times, and Pakistan’s The Dawn. He has appeared frequently on CNN, BBC, NPR, and Al‐​Jazeera English, and on prominent TV shows such as Fareed Zakaria GPS and HARDtalk. His TED talk on “Faith versus Tradition in Islam” has been watched by more than 1.2 million viewers. Akyol is also the author of six books originally written in Turkish, including Rethinking the Kurdish Question (2006), and the co‐​authored Ethical Capitalism (2012). Akyol has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in Ottoman history from the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. Throughout the past decade he gave regular lectures at the Nato Defense College and Acton University, in addition to many talks on campuses and public venues in the United States and around the world. In 2017, he was also a senior visiting fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). This episode features from writer and journalist Mustafa Akyol from 2011. Akyol argues that "a fundamental need for the contemporary Muslim world is to embrace liberty - the liberty of individuals and communities, Muslim and non-Muslims, believers and unbelievers, women and men, ideas and opinions, markets and entrepreneurs."

This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Mustafa Akyol and Richard Reeves.   Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish journalist and author. In June 2018, he joined the Cato Institute in Washington DC as a senior fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, to work on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity.   Richard Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies, where he holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. Richard is Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-director of the Center on Children and Families. His research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility.   Guests Mustafa Akyol Richard Reeves Links Erdogan Should Not Erase Turkey’s Christian Past Would the Prophet Muhammad Convert Hagia Sophia? Lessons from Jerusalem: The Hagia Sophia in Turkey is too disputed to turn back into a mosque Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims Follow us | faithangle.org

Mustafa Akyol, author of the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs

Hello and welcome to the Baha’i Blogcast with me your host, Rainn Wilson. In this series of podcasts I interview members of the Baha’i Faith and friends from all over the world about their hearts, and minds, and souls, their spiritual journeys, what they’re interested in, and what makes them tick. In this episode I have an awesome conversation with my wonderful Christian neighbors Sara and John Barton. Sara is an author and likes writing poetry and hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains, usually at the same time, and she serves as the University Chaplain at Pepperdine University in California, where she oversees worship services and pastoral care in the community. John is Director of the Center for Faith and Learning at Pepperdine University where he also serves on the faculties of the Religion and Philosophy Division and the graduate program in Social Entrepreneurship and Change. John also speaks and conducts research in the areas of African philosophy, ethics and philanthropy, Christian studies, interfaith dialogue, and Christian/Muslim interactions. The three of us talk about the station of Christ, the importance of service to others, and why interfaith dialogue and learning about religions is important in society today. They share the importance of being an active part of wider communities while maintaining their Christian convictions and commitments. They also tell me about the nonprofit they helped start and what their eight years in Uganda taught them. We discuss the importance of the community over the individual, prayer and meditation, why they love working with college students and have hope for the future. Sara even shares a wonderful poem she wrote just for the Baha'i Blogcast as well, so I hope you enjoy the conversation. To find out more about Sara and John Barton and some of the things we covered in this podcast, check out the following links: * You can read more about Sara Barton here: https://www.pepperdine.edu/spiritual-life/chaplain/about/ and John Barton here: https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/religion-philosophy/facultystaff/member.htm?faculty=john_barton * Here's a link to the nonprofit they helped start and continue to work with called the Kibo Group: https://www.kibogroup.org/ * Sara is the author of ‘A Woman Called: Piecing Together the Ministry Puzzle’: http://amzn.to/2wABPOG * John mentions the book ‘Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty’ by Mustafa Akyol: http://amzn.to/2gxjytL * You can find out more about the Station of Christ from this Baha'i Blog article: http://bahaiblog.net/site/2013/12/the-station-of-jesus-christ-in-the-bahai-faith/ * There’s mention of my book of memoirs called ‘The Bassoon King’: http://amzn.to/2gxOYjP * I make reference to one of my previous interviews with Native American Baha'i Kevin Locke on the Baha’i Blogcast which can be found here: http://bahaiblog.net/site/2017/08/bahai-blogcast-rainn-wilson-episode-19-kevin-locke/ * Here's the poem Sara recited in the interview: “Facing window, entering world, armed not with weapons but with questions, it tosses peace grenades to explode hearts for God. Listening outside, tuning in to stories that fill souls with hope, it releases them to float with clouds of sound. Honoring past days without fearing last days, engaging spiritual journeys now days, it wonders- as time clicks, what makes people tick? Joining creation, generating words that serve, broadcasting, podcasting narrative digital art, it does its part to light someone's dark. And so may we.” Be sure to ‘subscribe’ to the Baha’i Blogcast for more weekly episodes on: *iTunes: itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/bahai…son/id1127132519 *Soundcloud: @user-545312385 You can also stream the Blogcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MIpyUbDIw6zlAiwhHNMlV If you would like to find out more about the Baha'i Faith visit BAHAI.ORG, and for more great Baha'i-inspired content check out http://BAHAIBLOG.NET. Thanks for listening! -Rainn Wilson

Mustafa Akyol joins us this week to talk about Islam. Is there a Muslim case for liberty? How has Islam traditionally treated the principles of political liberalism?Show Notes and Further ReadingAkyol’s book is Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty (2013).He also mentions this op-ed he wrote in the Feb. 13th, 2017 edition of the New York Times, “What Jesus Can Teach Today’s Muslims.”Listeners may also be interested in this episode of Free Thoughts on libertarianism and Christianity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A lecture by Mustafa Akyol, author of Islam Without Extremes

From furious reactions to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad to the suppression of women, contemporary news from the Muslim world seems to beg the question: Is Islam compatible with freedom and democracy? With an eye sympathetic to both to Western liberalism and Islamic theology, Mustafa Akyol traced the ideological and historical roots of political Islam in his 2011 book Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty. Following the death of the Prophet Muhammad's in 632 AD, an intellectual "war of ideas" raged between rationalist, flexible schools of Islam and the more dogmatic, rigid interpretations. Although the traditionalist school won out, fostering perceptions of Islam as antithetical to modernity, Akyol suggests that a reexamination of the currents of Muslim thought reveal a flourishing of liberalism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the unique "Islam-liberal synthesis" of present-day Turkey. His analysis offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and religious, political, economic, and social freedoms. Mustafa Akyol is a columnist for two Turkish newspapers, Hürriyet Daily News and Star. His articles have also appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He studied political science and history at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, where he lives.