Civilization typology of contemporary intellectual trends in the Islamic world

So far, there have been several typologies of the intellectual currents of the Islamic world, but they have often been with a political or religious approach. The main question of the present article, which we are trying to answer with a descriptive, analytical and comparative method, is that from the point of view of civilization, what major approaches can be identified in the contemporary intellectual currents of the Islamic world, and what are the main characteristics and aspects of distinguishing these approaches from each other? According to the findings of this research, the three approaches of "civilizationist Islam", "Islamic civilizationist" and "Islamic modernist" can be distinguished from each other in contemporary intellectual currents. The first approach places its reliance on Islam and believes in the maximum relationship between religion and civilization with a religious interpretation of civilization. It considers the main cause of the decline of Islamic civilization to be away from religion and the way to revive it is to return to religion, and it has a negative and critical approach when facing Western civilization. The second approach, with a worldly reading of religion, tries to provide the context of communication and playing its role as a civilization. It considers the main factor of degeneration in the type of religious thought and the way of revival in its reformation and presentation of this world's interpretation of religion, and it chooses a selective-critical approach when facing Western civilization. The third approach, focusing on modernity, aims to provide a context for the relationship between religion and modernity as modern civilization with a modern reading of religion. It considers the cause of degeneration in the stagnation of thought and reason and the way to revive it in the reinterpretation of religion based on the elements of modernity, and it prefers a selective approach when facing Western civilization.