Islamic Modernism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-20

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00:02:34 1 Overview
00:02:44 1.1 Salafism and modernism
00:03:40 1.2 Trends
00:08:36 2 History of Modernism
00:10:43 2.1 Influence on Muslim Brotherhood
00:11:58 2.2 Muhammadiyah
00:12:40 3 Connection with the contemporary Salafism
00:15:20 4 Islamic modernists
00:17:07 4.1 Contemporary Modernists
00:17:52 5 Contemporary use
00:18:03 5.1 Pakistan
00:18:56 6 Criticism
00:21:42 7 See also



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Islamic Modernism is a movement that has been described as "the first Muslim ideological response" attempting to reconcile Islamic faith with modern values such as nationalism, democracy, civil rights, rationality, equality, and progress. It featured a "critical reexamination of the classical conceptions and methods of jurisprudence" and a new approach to Islamic theology and Quranic exegesis (Tafsir).It was the first of several Islamic movements – including secularism, Islamism, and Salafism – that emerged in the middle of the 19th century in reaction to the rapid changes of the time, especially the perceived onslaught of Western Civilization and colonialism on the Muslim world. Founders include Muhammad Abduh, a Sheikh of Al-Azhar University for a brief period before his death in 1905, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, and Muhammad Rashid Rida (d. 1935).
The early Islamic Modernists (al-Afghani and Muhammad Abdu) used the term "salafiyya" to refer to their attempt at renovation of Islamic thought, and this "salafiyya movement" is often known in the West as "Islamic modernism," although it is very different from what is currently called the Salafi movement, which generally signifies "ideologies such as wahhabism". Since its inception, Modernism has suffered from co-option of its original reformism by both secularist rulers and by "the official ulama" whose "task it is to legitimise" rulers' actions in religious terms.Modernism differs from secularism in that it insists on the importance of religious faith in public life, and from Salafism or Islamism in that it embraces contemporary European institutions, social processes, and values. One expression of Islamic Modernism (expressed by Mahathir Mohammed) is that "only when Islam is interpreted so as to be relevant in a world which is different from what it was 1400 years ago can Islam be regarded as a religion for all ages."