FIRST MODERN MUSLIM WRITERS
At the last part of the 19th century, a very influential but small group of Muslim thinkers and writers emerged and became the figures of Islamic modernism. Muhammad Iqbal, who also later made an important mark in the modernism of Pakistan, noted that Islamic philosophy has inspired European thoughts yet "Ismaic relisious thorughs have became stagnant.” (Geering, 2003) Other Muslim thinkers also thought about their religion being absoerbed and further developed by the greater scientific and modern infleunces of western thoughts. Hence, religion became a more central facet of modern social and political thoughts.
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