McGrath thanks for your post indicating that the Muslim world, at least in part, has seen some sort of Reformation. The samples you cite are much more recent than the much more widespread events of the Christian Reformation, which corresponds to my observation that Islam is a much 'younger' religion than Christianity.

By your lack of a citation, I take it that you do not disagree that Islam has no correspondence to what we term the Enlightenment.

I am making the argument that religions, along with nations, artistic periods, political movements and clothing fads, go through developmental stages.

Sometimes we may have cases of arrested development.