Islamic modernism

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Islamic modernism is a movement attempting to reconcile the Islamic faith with values perceived as modern such as democracy, civil rights, rationality, equality, and social 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). A contemporary definition describes it as an "effort to re-read Islam's fundamental sources—the Qur'an and the Sunna, (the practice of the Prophet)—by placing them in their historical context, and then reassessing them in the light of the modern context." It has been described as "the first Muslim ideological response to the Western cultural challenge". It was one of several Islamic movements—including Islamic secularism, Islamism, and Salafism—that emerged in the middle of the 19th century in reaction to the rapid changes of the time, especially the hegemony of Western civilization and colonialism imposed on the Muslim world. Islamic modernism...

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