Islam et modernité : vers une compréhension moderne de l'Islam

Exposé Société & moeurs Religion

Date de publication :

09/06/2008

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Anglais

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6 pages

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After the period of decolonization and the failure of nationalist governments in leading different Muslim countries into modernity, new movements emerged, bringing alternative responses to the problems brought by modernity
Interactions between Islam and the values which are associated with modernization

Résumé :

The events of the 20th century have totally upsetted the geography of islam. Decolonization and globalization phenomenons have been raising new issues in Muslim societies throughout the world. In this essay we will see how the tension between the search for a Muslim identity on the one side, and the push for modernization on the other side, has went through a period that stretches from the beginning of second half of the 20th century to today. We will understand modernization in a broad sense. It can be defined as a process in history during which a society elaborates better ways of regulating itself. We will take here modernization as an ensemble of historical and material conditions that allow emancipation from traditions, doctrines and ideologies given and not problematized by a traditional culture.

At the end of the 19th century al Nahda was a cultural, political and religious rebirth. At the time it already represented an attempt to adapt islam to the Western concepts of modernity in order to enable Muslim societies to rivalize with the West. And thus the thinkers of al Nahda imported and incorporated Western concepts to Islamic thought in an attempt to make it more relevant in the context of a modernizing world.