Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Qatar University.

The Western Civilization in Malek Bennabi’s Thought

Submitted by Issaka Razak A… on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 13:31

Malek Bennabi enjoyed his universal Islamic vision of humanity. He was a pioneer thinker and a creative philosopher, and had a special theory of modern civilization. His ideas were characterized by concentrated power on the central and fundamental issues and challenges facing the Islamic world in a precise, therapeutic, and diagnostic way.

Malek Bennabi’s Ideas on Occidentalism

Submitted by Issaka Razak A… on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 13:25

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

"Malek Bennabi’s Theory of Culture: A Reading in the Dialectical Relationship Between the System of Ideas and the Conditions of Renaissance"

Submitted by Issaka Razak A… on Sun, 05/02/2021 - 14:07
"Malek Bennabi’s contribution to the construction of concepts, conceptions, and analytical tools reveals a process in dealing with culture that is very much needed in the kind of education concerned with shaping “a society’s common style from its savants to its peasants.” The present study aims at delineating the milestones of that process by uncovering the determinant elements of Bennabi’s theory of culture in accordance with the following considerations: in terms of his choices to define the concept of culture, in terms of his determining the sociological and pragmatic functions of culture,