Progressivism in Islamhas remained a contested subject for centuries. All faiths have to allow for evolution and progress in order to survive in ever changing societies. The inexorable pace of technological change transforms societies with increasing pace and at shorter intervals. No religion can survive without offering answers to newer questions thrown up by the social condition transformed by technological changes. Ideologies and practice of faiths have to allow room for evolutionary progress. The doctrinaire conservative positions in major religions of the world can hardly ever stand the intellectual challenges put to them by the cosmopolitan humanitarianism of the Globalized, post. Industrial age. Many of the metaphysical notions of the ancient faiths have been convincingly refuted by the scientific discoveries of the modern times. Faiths that could not intellectually defend their metaphysical stances could hardly ever defend their social and individual ethical positions beyond certain limit. Much of the modern day skepticism derives from such intellectual crises of the religions. Islamic Scholars and theoreticians have responded to these challenges through various philosophical positions and intellectual arguments. The debates on this website shall discuss Islam’s positions on the questions of progress and struggles for the weaker segments of the societies.
Progressivism in Islam: اسلام اورترقی پسندی
