Iftikhar: Islamic Ways of Islamization

Towards Islamic Ways of Islamization:

Problems in Modernizing‑the Ahkaam of the

Shariah and Dawah

Modern Muslims have argued that we can modernize Islam by looking at the Maqasid of Shariah. Instead to a blind "hear and obey" attitude, we consider the context of the order given in the Shariah, and the purpose that it was meant to achieve. Then we consider how the same purpose can be achieved today, perhaps by different means. Maulvi Iftikharuzzaman considers the pros and cons of this view, and the dangers, and provides some arguments in favor of the orthodoxy against modernity.