By the Grace of Allah?

Implementing modern values into an Islamic framework : that was the primary goal of I slamic moderni sts, a religiopolitical movement in nineteenth century Middle East. The intellectuals constituting the movement sought to adopt Western liberal values, which they found in accordance with the Islamic scriptures. This paper provides an analysi s of the means and strategies deployed by Islamic modernists in order to establish expertise and credibility for their audience, to legitimize their reformatory claims and to justify the implementation of certain modern values.]