Malek Bennabi’s Ideas on Occidentalism

Malek Bennabi noted that contemporary Islamic thought suffers from a huge lack of understanding of Western civilization and warned of its consequences. The West is not an absolute concept but a relative issue that can be studied according to strict scientific methodology. Western civilization, it will be easy for it to know its shortcomings, and recognizes its true greatness, and thus the ties and exchanges with this Western world will become even more fertile, so that the Muslim elite will achieve a great deal of thought and activity. This paper tries to highlight Malek Bennabi’s arguments about Western civilization and the methodology used in its study and represented by the scientific rigor in the necessity of highlighting the thematic and evaluative tendency towards Western civilization, in order to promote the conscious awareness of the reality of Western civilization through its multidimensional cultural implications in the modern era and its implications for contemporary Islamic thought.