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Professed Muslims have created a considerable body of progressive interpretation of Islamic understanding and practice. [1] [2] Their work is sometimes characterized as "progressive" (Arabic: الإسلام التقدمي al-Islām at-taqaddumī) or "liberal" Islam. [3]
The Secular Islam Summit was an international forum for secularists of Islamic societies, held 4–5 March 2007 in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was largely organized and funded by the Center for Inquiry , a secular humanist educational organization, along with secular Muslims such as Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi and in partnership with the ...
Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri (eds.) 2002 Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush, Oxford University Press; Omid Safi (ed.) 2003 Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism, Oneworld; Azzam S. Tamimi 2001 Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism, Oxford University Press
Progressive British Muslims (PBM) was a group of Liberal British Muslims that formed following the London terrorist attacks of July 7, 2005. The organisation was founded and is chaired by Farmida Bi, an expert in Islamic Finance to provide a voice for progressive Muslims who she felt were unrepresented by existing faith organisations. [16]
Pages in category "Liberal and progressive movements within Islam" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Liberal and progressive Muslims are characterized by a rationalistic, critical examination and re-interpretation of the sacred scriptures of Islam; [138] affirmation and promotion of democracy, gender equality, human rights, LGBT rights, women's rights, religious pluralism, interfaith marriage, [139] [140] freedom of expression, freedom of ...
Safi's book Progressive Muslims (2003) contains a diverse collection of essays by and about progressive Muslims. He is one of a number of progressive scholars of Islam in the early 21st century whose work has described for Western readers the diverse range of Muslim thought in the last half of the 20th century. [7]
Taraki aimed to reconcile this with Islam by proposing a "progressive, modern, pure Islam," free from "bad traditions, superstition and erroneous belief." This indicated Taraki’s effort to merge Islamic values with socialist principles, reflecting a form of Islamic socialism, although it faced backlash from the Islamic clergy and the rural ...