Who are all those thinkers, from Morocco to Iran, who are attempting to change Islam from within? And what are their most challenging ideas? Some famous, some less so, some religious, some secular, they are the often-persecuted philosophers, sociologists and authors of Islam today. After publishing an “intellectual chart” of changes in Islam in our magazine Reset in Italian, ResetDoC.org wishes to offer its English-speaking readers a compass to navigate those encouraging dialogue in the Muslim world. We start today with a essay by Fred Dallmayr from the University of Notre Dame on Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, two immensely important philosophers, both of whom died in the past year. There are also the profiles of three great philosophers of change: Muhammad Talbi, Abdolkarim Soroush, and Abdou Filali-Ansary, as well as Filali-Ansary’s essay on the complex relationship between secularism and the Muslim world. READ HERE