Scholars who advocated the reconciliatory approach between Islam and human rights have applied several methods to reach this end. Under this approach, Muslims are not obliged to apply the body of the traditional jurisprudence and the juristic reasoning (Ijtihad) should be allowed. A group of those scholars suggested drastic reform of the legal methods used by the traditional jurists in order to evolve Islamic public law and solve the contemporary tensions between this law and the universal human rights principles. They propagate a contextual interpretation of the Quaran and Sunna in light of time and place.
