- In “Can Islam Be Renewed In The Twenty-First Century? Revisiting Tajdīd, Ijtihād, And The Future Of Islamic Civilization” (Eurasia Review), Mohamed Chtatou (Mohammed V University) argues that “authentic 21st-century renewal requires combining reformist creativity (especially through the higher objectives of the Sharīʿah / maqāṣid) with traditionalist safeguards of scholarly rigor and continuity, enabling Muslims to address unprecedented challenges such as AI, biotechnology, and climate change without polarizing into either uncritical modernity or rigid stagnation.”