Liberal Islam: A Historical Appraisal

Abstract

There are many ideologies integrated into the Muslim world through colonialism and modernization. Particularly, after the collapse of the Islamic regime, we have witnessed a few trends within the Muslim community over the past 2 centuries like liberal Islam, modern Islam, and radical Islam. Liberal Islam is one of them which is trying to solve the social and religious problems through the reinterpretation of Islam. In other words, their proponents claim that if Muslim Ummah wants to bring back Ummah culture and civilization, the Muslim community must adapt to western modernization and should use an integration policy with western philosophy. This paper goes with the thought of Islamic scholars in the modern context. The article uses a qualitative methodology and comparative and content analysis are used to understand the trend of liberal Islam in the contemporary world. This study attempts to assess the authenticity of liberal Islam and how Muslims are affected by liberal Islam.