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Islamic modernism

Islamic modernism
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Overview

movement to reconcile Islam with modern values

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  1. Such deviations from the general trend of development are usually attributed to the influence of personalities. It is not impossible, however, that they are due in this case to the fact that Islamism spread to peoples of totemic culture. But in other departments of life also, remnants and traces of totemic culture have passed down to the heroic era. A striking example appears in the case of the Spartan State.

    Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind

    Close in meaning to Islamic modernism; the term itself is not named.

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  2. All that we have said being true, it must have become evident how we can acquire our deeds, and how far they are governed by predestination and fate. This very reconciliation is the real purpose of religion by those verses and Traditions which are apparently contradictory. When their universal nature be limited in this manner, those contradictions should vanish by themselves, and all the doubts which were raised…

    Averroës, The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes

    Close in meaning to Islamic modernism; the term itself is not named.

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  3. The development through extreme individualism to strife, and thence, one hopes, to a new reintegration, is to be seen in almost every department of life. Claims are advanced in the name of justice, and resisted in the name of tradition and prescriptive right. Each side honestly believes that it deserves to triumph, because two theories of society exist side by side in our thought, and men choose, unconsciously, the…

    Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

    States what Islamic modernism is.

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Place in the tradition

Part of Liberalism.

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