The Arabic word " turath" carries complex ideological connotations, the word has the sense of " heritage", "legacy" and " culture". The turath does not only imply the history of a tradition that extends to the present; it also convys the active sense of seeking to shape a political present by interpreting its identity in terms of a particular image of its past.
So, this article tries to find out the different meanings of turath firstly, and the views of Islamic Liberalists such as Fatama Mernissi, Lila Ahmed, Muhamad `Abid al-Jabiri, Taha `Aba al-Rahman and Fazlur Rahman on turath secondly.
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