• DOI:10.1080/15570274.2013.829987
• Corpus ID: 35535362

CRITICAL-PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM THOUGHT: REFLECTIONS ON ITS POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS

@article{Duderija2013CRITICALPROGRESSIVEMT,
  title={CRITICAL-PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM THOUGHT: REFLECTIONS ON ITS POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS},
  author={Adis Duderija},
  journal={The Review of Faith \& International Affairs},
  year={2013},
  volume={11},
  pages={69 - 79}
}

• Adis Duderija
• Published 1 September 2013
• Political Science
• The Review of Faith & International Affairs

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.