Mustafa Akyol
@AkyolinEnglish · Washington, DC · joined 09 May 2011
Senior Fellow on Islam and modernity at @CatoInstitute. Senior Lecturer at @BostonCollege. Author of a few books. Writes also in 🇹🇷 as @AkyolMustafa.
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"Those who defend exceptions to the Islamic stricture against compulsion in religion must meet the burden of responding to this volume’s arguments."
Thanks @JacobP_Williams for this laudatory book review in Oxford University's Journal of Islamic Studies: https://t.co/hNiAnwojoE
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"Why and how can Sharia be separated from the state?"
We begin in one hour. Join us online and send your written questions via the link below — or just post them here.
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Sharia, or Islamic law, is a contentious issue in Muslim-majority countries, and lately even in the West. Why and how can Sharia be separated from the state?
Join us for a discussion featuring:
🔹Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Emeritus, Emory
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"No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions" is now available in Indonesia — and shipping!
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An exciting contribution to the study of Islamic philosophy in the Ottoman Empire: a rigorous study of Kemālpaşazāde — "the Ottoman Avicenna," or Ibn Sina of the Ottomans.
I look forward to reading and learning from it:
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@AkyolinEnglish @CatoInstitute Mine just arrived. Thank you for writing this book and making it available in Indonesia 😇🙏 https://t.co/WUiwSS6X9F
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@AkyolinEnglish @CatoInstitute @TempletonRelig Did you know that Muslims revere many of the same prophets found in the Bible? The Qur'an tells the stories of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus from an Islamic perspective. I wrote a Muslim translation of the Christian Bible. Ha
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Our chapters cover a wide range: from arguments against Kadızadeli militants in 17th c. Ottoman Empire, to Taliban's religious dictates, to "Ramadan laws."
We also examine Pakistan's blasphemy laws, Iran's self-defeating religion police, and "separating Sharia and the state." ht
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"No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions" will be released by @CatoInstitute on February 10.
It will be available on Amazon and other bookstores — plus a free PDF download.
Its Arabic, Persian and Urdu editions are also coming soon.
Read more here:
https://t.co/Uzz2JlkOQx
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Also, thanks to scholars who shared their comments:
"It is difficult to imagine a more compellingly relevant and timely book"—@Kh_fadl
"An absolute must-read"—Andrew F. March
"Makes a compelling case"—@prof_ahmetkuru
"Challenges totalitarian interpretations"—@Mirwaisbalkhi1 h
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The book’s title draws from the famous Qur'anic verse: “There is no compulsion in religion…” (2:256)
It proclaims that religion must be based on freedom, not coercion.
Yet some Islamic authorities have carved out major “exceptions” to this freedom, which we challenge. https://t
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As the book's editor, I'm proud to have worked with prominent Muslim scholars who have authored chapters or contributed otherwise:
Muhammad Khalid Masud, Asma Afsaruddin, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, Abdullah Saeed, Husnul Amin, @MamadMachine, @lamallammoh.
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Glad to announce our forthcoming book:
“No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions:
Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom”
Challenging apostasy & blasphemy laws, "religion police," and gender inequalities.
By @CatoInstitute, supported by @TempletonRelig:
https://t.co/Uzz2JlkOQx
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Against accounts of the same size
7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.
Median views2 038this account968median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.57%this account3.43%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.93%this account1.91%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 2 038 | 968 | 2.11× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.57% | 3.43% | 1.04× |
| Engagement rate | 0.93% | 1.91% | 0.49× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.60%6 Jan
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.91%.
What the audience does
Likes59.5%335 in total
Reposts12.4%70 in total
Replies6.4%36 in total
Quotes2.0%11 in total
Bookmarks19.7%111 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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