ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the main arguments employed by the proponents of progressive Muslim thought for legitimizing the idea of divinely willed religious pluralism in the context of the late modern episteme. By definition, involves tackling the topic of the salvation of the religious. It also examines the views of Abdolkarim Soroush and Tariq Ramadan as being most representative of this approach. However, to contextualize the discussion, the chapter describes briefly by defining what is meant by the concepts of 'religious pluralism' and 'the ethic of pluralism' and how they played themselves out in Islamic history. It analyses the broad approaches to the question of the salvation of the religious Other in the classical Muslim scholarship. The chapter suggests 'ethic of pluralism' that the teachings of the Qur'an and the normative conduct of the Prophet while not conceptually identical with the modern concept of pluralism are, however, in complete accordance with what Mir terms the ethic of pluralism.
