ABSTRACT
This chapter is an investigation into the impact of modernity on Islamic thought in the Indian subcontinent. It explores the rise of Islamic modernism as a reform movement and its salient features. It elucidates the views of some Muslim modernist thinkers on the appeal to return to the Qur’an, reliance on reason for interpreting this foundation text of Islam and on scientific knowledge for understanding nature and history, and finally their criticism of the doctrine of predestination.
