The Renewal of Islamic Thought: Figures and Movements
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https://doi.org/10.36668/jal.v14i2.1554Abstract
This study examines the reformist ideas of three influential Muslim scholars Muhammad Abduh, Fazlur Rahman, and Ismail Raji al-Faruqi who shaped modern Islamic thought through rational, hermeneutical, and epistemological renewal. Using a qualitative library research method, the study compares their concepts within the broader context of Islamic reform. The findings reveal that Abduh emphasized rational theology and educational reform to liberate Muslims from dogmatism; Rahman advanced a moral hermeneutic through his double movement theory for contextual Qur’anic interpretation; and al-Faruqi introduced the Islamization of Knowledge as a response to secularism in modern science. Together, their ideas construct an integrative framework for Islamic modernity that harmonizes reason and revelation, ethics and knowledge. The study concludes that their intellectual legacies remain vital in shaping contemporary Islamic education, thought, and socio-intellectual transformation
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