Abstract:
Relevance of the problem under study is caused by special attention to problems of Islam
modernization in the globalization process context. The Islamic civilization is actively involved in
processes of inter-religious interaction that raises a question of updating Islam. Today ideas of
Jadidism and its representatives become in demand again. The purpose of this article is the
paradigm analysis of the views of scientists of the end of the 20th - the beginning of 21 centuries in
the context of epistemological approaches and national traditions. The leading method of studying
this problem is the method of radical constructivism according to which "knowledge" does not
reflect reality, and designs it from sources available to the researcher.
Results of research demonstrate that distinctions of views are caused by lack of the standard
conceptual framework. Often scientists use different terms, meaning one and the same phenomenon,
or on the contrary use one term, meaning different
