CRITICAL-PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM THOUGHT: REFLECTIONS ON ITS POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS

Adis Duderija

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2013, vol. 11, issue 3, 69-79

Abstract: Many of the contemporary political conflicts in Muslim-majority countries are said to pit modern secularists against the "backward" Islamists. However an important stream of contemporary Muslim thought-critical-progressive Muslim thought-refuses to accept either a hegemony of Western secularism or a hegemony of Islamist fundamentalism. Critical-progressive Muslim scholar-activists are reinterpreting the normative teachings of the Muslim worldview and developing a distinctive third-way approach. There are several key political and policy ramifications of this stream of thought, including a robust commitment to religious freedom, but within Islamic terms, not terms dictated by non-Muslim Westerners preoccupied with their own security interests.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2013.829987

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