ABSTRACT
This chapter will serve to introduce the focus on the subjective within the values projects of three modern Islamic thinkers who have attempted to articulate methodologies wherein human reason and rationality is equal to and inseparable from scripture as an ethical motivator. The thinkers that feature in this study were chosen as much for what makes them diverse as for what unites them. Their objectives and methodologies are far from uniform. What they share, however, is a common belief that Islamic values are best expressed as a function of the human experience, that there is more than one road to the derivation of a set of individual and collective Islamic values, and that legitimate values systems have developed in the context of diverse non-Muslim social, cultural and religious circumstances in parallel to those found in Islamic societies.
