Islam and Modernity---A Selective Influence of the Capitalistic Set-up

Dr. Sobia Tahir

doi:10.32350/jitc.11.04

Dr. Sobia Tahir Asst. Professor Department of Philosophy Government College University Lahore

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32350/jitc.11.04

Abstract

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Modernity is a term referred to the complex trends of thought which led mankind to the present age with far reaching consequences. The socio-cultural milieu, we are living in, is, nonetheless, a product of modernity. Though as per experts and critics of the field, modernity ended by the beginning of the later half of the 20th century and is no more relevant now. Currently the real topic to be discussed is post-modernity, which is also
perhaps in the last phase(s). We, however, may not claim to be surviving in the post-modern era, because we are still at premodern stage of history especially in the context of Islam and the Muslim World. Hence, for us this topic still bears vital significance though outlived by the contemporary world.

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Iftikhar H. Malik, Islam and Modernity: Muslims in Europe and the United States (London: Pluto Press, 2004), 1. 156 See P. 11 below. 157 Allama Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (Lahore: Institute of Islamic Culture, 2006), 6. 158 Einstein was not a religious thinker, nor does Physics deal with theological subjects. (Author) 159 Natini Natranjan, (ed.) Handbook of Twentieth Century Literature (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), 337.

Fazlur Rahman, Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (Chicago & London, The University of Chicago Press: 1984), 71-72. 161 Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond, ed., John Cooper, Mohamad Mahmoud, Ronald Nettler (New York & London: I.B. Taurus and Company, 2000), 10. This is a fine book on the topic with six highly academic essays, interested readers may like to see the following too:

i) ―The limits of the Sacred: The Epistemology of Abdul Karim Soroush‖, John Cooper;

ii) ―Mahmud Muhammad Taha‘s Second Message to Islam and his Modernist Project‖, Mohamad Mahmoud;

iii) ―Mohamed Talibi‘s Ideas on Islam and Politics: a Conception of Islam for the Modern World‖, Ronald L. Nettler;

iv) ―Islamic History, Islamic Identity and the Reform of Islamic Law: The Thought of Husayn Ahmad Amin‖, Nadia Abu -Zahra