Gabriel Said Reynolds reviews Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance, by Mustafa Akyol, at First Things.
"...Akyol argues in Reopening Muslim Minds, Islam is in a crisis, a crisis that cannot simply be blamed on Western colonialism or imperialism. Islam’s crisis is due to the rise of movements skeptical of human reason and secular sciences and eager to use coercive political power to suppress dissent."
"One other omission [from Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990)] that was probably a mistake on our part was not including references to the Koran (qur’an) along with the Old and New Testament in the Reference Section of the 102 Chapters of the Syntopicon." Mortimer J. Adler, A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large, 1991, p.141, n. 4.
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