The Western-Islamic Civilizational and Intellectual Conflict in Malek Bennabi’s Thought

This study aims at clarifying the ability of the Algerian thinker, Malek Bennabi, to penetrate the problems of the ideas in the Islamic world as the cultural conflict between the West and the Third World in general, and Islam in particular. This study attempts to answer questions such as how do societies and nations rise and achieve their leadership and cultural radiance? How do societies and nations lose their civilizational renaissance and enter the night of resentment and civilized subordination? Why did Islamic societies lose their cultural renaissance? What are the consequences? How can these societies regain their cultural renaissance? This study attempts to explore the future vision of the ideas of Malek Bennabi in the field of Islamic thought or the basic values advocated by Islam through what is happening in the contemporary Islamic world, with an analytical approach based on texts and reality scenes and God’s cosmic Sunnah. The study hopes to achieve results and provide a vision to re-understand Islam in its civilized form of soft power that can be understood in a modern way, one which aims at building the universe, honoring human rights, and asserting freedoms and non-coercion.