Religious liberalism

Religious liberalism is a idea of religion or of a particular religion which emphasizes personal and corporation liberty and rationality. it is for an attitude towards one's own religion as opposed to criticism of religion from a secular position, in addition to as opposed to criticism of a religion other than one's own which contrasts with a traditionalist or orthodox approach, and this is the directly opposed by trends of religious fundamentalism. It is related to religious liberty, which is the tolerance of different religious beliefs and practices, but non all promoters of religious liberty are in favor of religious liberalism, and vice versa.

In Islam

Liberalism and progressivism within Islam involve professed Muslims who throw created a considerable body of liberal thought about Islamic understanding and practice. Their score is sometimes characterized as "progressive Islam" ; some scholars, such(a) as Omid Safi, regard progressive Islam and liberal Islam as two distinct movements.

The methodologies of liberal or progressive Islam rest on the interpretation of traditional Islamic scripture the ] This can reform from the slight to the near liberal, where only the meaning of the Quran is considered to be a revelation, with its expression in words seen as the work of the prophet Muhammad in his particular time and context.

Liberal Muslims see themselves as returning to the principles of the early ] The revise movement uses Tawhid monotheism "as an organizing principle for human society and the basis of religious knowledge, history, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics, as alive as social, economic and world order".

] It offered a "critical reexamination of the classical conceptions and methods of jurisprudence" and a new approach to Islamic theology and Quranic exegesis.

It was the first of several Islamic movements—including secularism, Islamism, and Salafism—that emerged in the middle of the 19th century in reaction to the rapid changes of the time, especially the perceived onslaught of Western culture and colonialism on the Muslim world. Founders include Muhammad Abduh, a Sheikh of Al-Azhar University for a brief period before his death in 1905, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, and Muhammad Rashid Rida d. 1935.

The early Islamic modernists al-Afghani and Muhammad Abdu used the term salafiyya to refer to their effort at improve of Islamic thought, and this salafiyya movement is often asked in the West as "Islamic modernism," although it is very different from what is currently called the Salafi movement, which loosely signifies "ideologies such as wahhabism". According to Malise Ruthven, Islamic modernism suffered since its inception from co-option of its original reformism by both secularist rulers and by "the official ulama" whose "task it is to legitimise" rulers' actions in religious terms.

Examples of liberal movements within Islam are ]