Religion and Faith in Malek Bennabi’s Book ‘The Conditions of the Renaissance’

"This paper deals with the subject of religion and faith in the book, The Conditions of the Renaissance, by Malek Bennabi. The effective religious spirit is at the origin and the end of civilizations. Civilizations “begin when history enters a certain religious idea or when history enters a certain moral principle.... When the spirit finally lost the hegemony that was on the instincts suppressed or forced to fight.” The man is broad-minded and considerate. He is a Muslim believer to the core. He is equally an open-minded thinker on all cultures and civilizations. He seeks the common denominators of different human cultures, and his ideas and proposals are still viable, such as a number of intellectuals and scientists, former and contemporary. The approach to consider it—in terms of the action and civilization-building, rich ideas and proposals that still radiate in them, including life, because it is built more often on the general intellectual consideration and not on the transient and circumstantial consideration of its nature—therefore is still valid for investment and to continue to quote, build, and supplement them. "