1. INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY,ISLAMABAD
GROUP 1

4. • Modern view or method, especially
tendency in matters of religious belief
to subordinate tradition to harmony
with modern thought’. Modernism
means the recent phase of world
history marked by belief in
science, planning, secularism and
progress. It drives towards the
industrialization and emphasized on
materialism as a way of life.

6. Postgeneral and wide-
It is a
modernism
ranging term which is applied
to literature, art, philosophy,
architecture, fiction, and
cultural and literary criticism,
among others.

7. • Postmodernism is "post"
because it denies the
existence of any ultimate
principles, and it lacks the
optimism of there being a
scientific, philosophical, or
religious truth which will
explain everything for
everybody - a characteristic
of the so-called "modern"
mind

8. PARADOX of POST
• As MODERN POSITION
the philosopher Richard Tarnas
states, postmodernism "cannot on its
own principles ultimately justify itself
any more than can the
various metaphysical overviews against
which the postmodern mind has
defined itself."

14. • The connection between
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postmodernism and ethno-religious
revivalism- or fundamentalism-
needs to be explored by social
and political scientists.

15. • The continuity with the
past, however apocalyptic the
claims, remains a strong feature
of postmodernism.

16. Continuity with past

21. Islam and
Post
Modernism

22. MUSLIM ENTRY TO THE POST
MODERNIST PHASE OF HISTORY

23. MUSLIM MODERISM

24. The modern period had led Muslims
into a dead end…….
• Dictators
• Coups
• Corruption
• Nepotism in politics
• Low education standards
• An intellectual paresis
• The continuing oppression of women
• The under-privileged
• Grossly unequal distribution of wealth are some
of its characteristics.

25. ISLAMIZATION

26. PERCEPTIONS OF THE WESTERN
THREAT

27. • West perceives Islam as the major
next enemy after communism

29. Islam
teaches …….!!

30. Western culture
is…

31. MUSLIM DELEMMAS

32. • . Second most important problem
for Muslim society is the negative
stereotype image of a Muslim

34. MUSLIM ANGUISH
MUSLIM ANGUISH
• Muslim killing a Muslim
not for an Islamic
cause but for political
and economic reason

35. • Nevertheless violence and cruelty
are not in the spirit of the
Quran, nor are they found in the
life of the Prophet (S.A.W) not in
the life’s of saintly MusliMs.

36. conclusion…
..

37. CONCLUSION
• Many perplexing questions are
emerging in the context of such
situation that what can
postmodernism mean for Muslims?
When does it become distinct from
modernism or is it essentially
modernism is another shape? Is it yet
another concept borrowed from the
west to be applied or misapplied to
Muslim society with the ideas like
”progress” , “rationality” and
“secularisM”? can the application of