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The role and the centrality of the religious idea in the renaissance of nations and the direction of human history are two factors that inhabited the heart of Malek Bennabi. This is evident in his written and inspired production and practice. This study aims to focus on the ways on how Malek Bennabi called and used the Qur’anic text in his book, The Conditions of the Renaissance, and his other innovations.

"The paper explores the religious idea of Malek Bennabi as a movement in the formation and analysis of human civilization throughout history, especially Islamic civilization. Malek Bennabi asserted that the formation of civilization is centered on the influence of the religious idea, which is intertwined with the interaction of a strong and effective relationship between man, place, and time.

"Spiritual motivation was among the most important renaissance factors which Malek Bennabi, being the pioneer in this field, focused on. Bennabi interpreted the inception of the Islamic civilization as based on spiritual factors, noting that whenever such a factor starts to languish, civilization, in turn, starts to become feeble as well, even if reason prevails. If spiritual motivation starts to break down, civilization starts to decline. This principle has applied to the Islamic civilization since its inception, weakness, and decline.

"The topic, “The Questions of Faith and the Civilizational Renaissance,” is an exploration of the bud or origin of civilization going back to the basis of conventional faith known in the revelation era. Due to the dissemination of different versions in the name of faith, I was obliged to clarify the reality of faith and distinguish between its real and fabricated forms. This exercise shows the difference between the knowledge of the faith and knowing faith so as to focus on that faith which leads to civilization.

"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

"In the perception of civilizations, we often judge a society by its concrete achievements, but ignore the motives that give birth and feed civilizations, which can be discovered by rationally analyzing the phenomena leading to the rise of a civilization. In this paper, I define a civilization as a universalized local culture emerging as a result of an accumulation which builds up through the manifestation of the human inner world within a social context. According to this definition, a civilization is primarily a culture; but a local culture which has been universalized.

"The purpose of this paper is to focus on Bennabi’s equation of civilization (man + matter + time) and expand its meanings and deny some illusions in understanding it in the hope of activating this vision to turn the general rule into a visual program. The paper sets out three tasks. First, the detail in the partial dimensions of each of the elements of the triangular complex of civilization. Second, the interaction of these three dimensions, so as not to fall into a static understanding of the complex of civilization.

"The Conditions of the Renaissance is one of Malek Bennabi’s most well-known books, in which his vision of civilization is as being the result of the encounter between man, soil, and time catalyzed by an idea that endows them with significance, value, and efficacy.