While some Muslims pushed for the creation ofĪn indigenous Islamic Enlightenment by eagerly developing IslamicĪlternatives to Western secular notions of democracy, others advocated Indeed, thatĮxperience forced the entire Muslim community to reconsider the role ofįaith in modern society. And each had different responses to the experience ofĬolonialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scripture, its own ideas on theology and the law, and its own community Sacred history, each group strove to develop its own interpretation of Mainstream, or Sunni, Islam and its two major sectarian Which fractured the Muslim community and widened the gap between Muhammad's revolutionary message of moral accountability and socialĮgalitarianism was gradually reinterpreted by his successors intoĬompeting ideologies of rigid legalism and uncompromising orthodoxy, Seventh-century Arabia has been formed, it is possible to trace how Once a reasonable interpretation of the rise of Islam in sixth- and Reasonably reconstruct the origins and evolution of Islam. Mohammed was born and in which his message was formed, we can more Prophet, along with our understanding of the cultural milieu in which By relying on the Quran and the traditions of the What can be known abut the spiritual and political landscape in which Particular religious tradition is by merging the religion's myths with The way scholars form a reasonable interpretation of a
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