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APOLOGETIC MODERNITY - Faisal Devji

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Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Muslims have been deeply concerned with the idea of modernity and it place inIslamic thought.  The term 'Modernity' was itself to Muslims and their thought and is taken from English or French through translation. Some Pertinent Questions that Mr. Faisal Devji Asks in the initial Part of this Essay are: 🔺was this language of modernity wholly or Partially Foreign ? 🔺Was it a sign of Christian or European Dominance?  🔺Was there anything neutral, Universal or Islamic about the modern?  In a way, it is this kind of characterised questions which have shaped Modernity and Islam to define in a form of relationship which resulted in the question of accepting, rejecting, or compromising  with modernity. 🔺The argument that Faisal Devji put forth in this article is " The dictated character of this debate, However, made the emergence of a systmatic modernism  in control of its own terms of ar...