Studying the Trend of Muslim Scholars Intellectual Modernism in Islamic Sciences: A Case Study of Arab Muslim Productive Scholars of Hanafi, Abouzeyd, Jaberi Arkoun

Studying the trend of Muslim scholars' intellectual modernism in line with a re-reading of Islamic sciences has caused to a new trend in the recent century. This trend first developed in accordance with the approach of European civilizations achievements in the spectrum of scientific and epistemological principles among Arab Muslim intellectual modernism. This phenomenon was faced with welcoming new studies in humanities such as structuralism, linguistics, semantics, anthropology, and other affiliated sciences to them by a number of outstanding contemporary Arab intellectuals such as Hassan Hanafi, Hāmed Abouzayd, Nasr, Muhammad Abed Aljāberi, and Muhammad Arkoun known as new-E'tizalis. To voice the misgivings against the problems raised for the confrontation of Islam and modernity, it led to a review of tradition and ancient heritage as well as the origins of religious beliefs and reception of epistemological patterns and modern Western world achievements and their applications in the scientific and intellectual Islamic treasures. Deploying a descriptive-analytical research method and studying the criteria and fundamental factors of modernity and knowing its historical backgrounds, the researcher studies its effects on modernism movement and criticism of religious discourse in Islamic communities. Thus, the general views of new-E'tizlis are discussed so that a new perspective and a fairs judgment to the knowledge, analysis and criticism of this influential movement in the contemporary era are presented.