Malek Bennabi as Occidentalist, and his theory of relationship with the western civilization

"This paper deals with the intellectual and methodological effort exerted by Malek Bennabi to construct a distinct perspective to approach the Western phenomenon and handles the theoretical framework that Malek Bennabi developed to know the West, along with his contribution to the construction of the Jurisprudence of Occidentalism. Thus he set the foundations of an interactive and balanced methodology in dealing with the West, a school characterized by its methodical analysis and renewal of vision in addressing the concerns of the modern Muslim mind, especially the jurisprudence of the relationship between the I/Islam and the Other/West. Therefore, he is considered among the first leading scholars to attempt at studying the phenomenon of civilization in general, and the Western phenomenon in particular, thus deserving a place among the most important founders of Contemporary Islamic Occidentalism, and an important episode in the civilization studies project in general. This paper is concerned with approaching answers to two main questions :What are Malek Bennabi’s thesis characteristics in his view of Western civilization? And what is remaining of this thesis that can be used and developed to build a rightly guided Jurisprudence of Occidentalism?"