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The reform within Islam and the legitimacy of the contemporary reinterpretations of the Qur'anic text
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Abstract Considered through the lens of Western liberalism, progress and emancipation seem to be incompatible with Muslim reformist outlooks. However, the exegesis of islah, the Islamic reform, examined in its own paradigm, reveals alternative approaches to modernity which are able to escape the antinomy tra... view more
Considered through the lens of Western liberalism, progress and emancipation seem to be incompatible with Muslim reformist outlooks. However, the exegesis of islah, the Islamic reform, examined in its own paradigm, reveals alternative approaches to modernity which are able to escape the antinomy tradition-modernity as Islamic reform occurs within the tradition, not against it.... view less
Keywords
Islam; reform; modernity; tradition
Classification
Sociology of Religion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 31-40
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 12 (2012) 1
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works