A survey of the development of contemporary Islamic thought

Modernism in the Islamic methods of change is among the most important issues in the Islamic thought. The most important priorities of modernism in the methods of change are proposing Islamic alternatives, renovating Islamic methods of change, freedoms, and rights, difference, interrelationships and dialogue, democracy, plurality and relationship with others, relationship with the West and Islamization of knowledge. Islamic thought thrived outstandingly in the 80s and attained balance once more. Facing with the problem of state, movements in the Islamic world, the formation of research institutes about the epistemological domains of Islamic thought, special journals in the field of Islamic thought, and the emergence of a new generation of Muslim thinkers form the foundation of the emergence of new Islamic thought. Fighh [jurisprudence] and Osul [The Principles], the Quran and Tafsir [interpretation], and the Islamic thought behind the Islamic revolution constitute the most important cultural grounds of the Islamic thought. The most important features of the new Islamic thought include relationship with the time, movement toward modernism, review and critique, forethought, and moderation. In addition, human rights, public freedoms, government, state, political Fighh, Islamic knowledge, Ijtihad in Fighh and modernism in the contemporary Islamic culture and civilization are the most important challenges of the new Islamic thought.