ABSTRACT
There is aplethora of literature on Islamic Modernism. These works have, however, focused on social, political and legal aspects of Muslim modernist thought. However, the most important ideological component of modernism - the philosophy and methodology of modern science and its appropriation by Muslim modernists - hasn't received due attention from either the orientalists or the Muslim scholars. Muslim scholars have themselves not paid sufficient attention to the problematic area of relationship of Islam to modern science. Muslim modernist reformists and reconstructionists have generally passed over the problem of modern science and modernism where its relationship to religion is concerned. Muslim modernists have argued their case without paying much attention to the problem of modern science that threatens to problematize the Islamic or orthodox credentials of their approach.
