ABSTRACT
The author argues that both modernist thinkers and Islamist projects develop substantively a modern Islamic theory of knowledge that Islamizes basic modern epistemological issues like phenomenology, historicism and relativism and concepts like democracy and state. He then examines how the varieties of modern Islamist theories are Islamized and arrives at the conclusion that this is done through a dialectical process of combining modern Western thought and Islamic traditional thought. The Islamists first consider Islam as both an integral part of the universe and its laws and as an expression of true nature. The Islamists view religion as the truest method and system because of its harmony with the universe. The author focuses on the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), an Islamist organization, is to uplift Muslim thought and methodology by developing philosophies, paradigms and ways in which knowledge is acquired.
