Contribution à une typologie des réformismes de l'islam : les critères distinctifs du « réformisme islamique ».

This article is conceived within the framework of a work which seeks to propose a new typology of a school of Muslim thought of our time (from the 1950s to the present) : the “Islamic Reformism”. A first requirement will be to establish the current status of taxonomic attempts of our predecessors concerning Muslim thinkers and more specifically around a concept as problematic as the "reform of Islam”. By taking into account the limits and contributions of these earlier taxonomies, we will then try to limit this particular school of thought of which we assume that it can be characterized among other intellectual currents. We propose an original reading grid of five distinctive criteria of the “Islamic Reformism”. Finally, on a contrastive plan, it will be easier at this stage to distinguish, on one hand, the reformist current and its different trends and, on the other hand, the current politicized Islamic movements which often hide the original contribution of the first one by consolidating the common sense towards a reified Muslim world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]