The Reform within Islam and the Legitimacy of the Contemporary Reinterpretations of the Qur'anic Text.
The Reform within Islam and the Legitimacy of the Contemporary Reinterpretations of the Qur'anic Text.
Author(s): Alina Isak AlakSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Islam; reform; modernity; tradition; Qur'anic.
Summary/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 approches to modernity which are able to escape the antinomy tradition- modernity as Islamic reform occurs within the tradition, not against it.
Journal: Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review
- Issue Year: 12/2012
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 31-40
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English