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The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
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The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam connects enduring principles with changing conditions. Iqbal’s legal proposals ask how interpretation and collective deliberation might be renewed.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 73
Reason, tradition and renewal in modern Muslim thought
Iqbal proposes renewing legal interpretation through ijtihad and collective deliberation, and Hallaq challenges a simple history in which interpretation was closed. How much freedom does such renewal allow?