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    Overview

    In this episode, Nathan Mech, program outreach project manager here at the Acton Institute, sits down with Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, to discuss his new book, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

    In his book, Akyol dives deep into Islamic theology, shares lessons from his own life story, and reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. 

    Values often associated with Western thought like freedom, reason, tolerance, and science were historically part of Islamic philosophy but in recent generations have been cast aside to reach political ends.

    Mustafa Akyol | Bio  

    Islam and Freedom

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    Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance 

    Mustafa Akyol on the prospects for liberty in the Islamic world  

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