Conferences

Since its founding as an Islamic religious movement in July 1971 at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the Malaysian National University, the Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement (ABIM) has played a major role in promoting Islamic ideas for reform in the country. Not far from the ideas of Imam Hassan al-Banna, Maulana Abul ‘Ala al-Maududi, Sayyid Qutb, Muhammad Iqbal, and others. In the early 1970s, the leaders of the Malaysian

The Clash of Civilizations” thesis is the central theme in international relations today. How does one encounter such a conflict-ridden and divisive phenomenon? Is there any scientific way to investigate cultural diversity throughout the world while looking for universal human values and virtues? In other words, could worldwide cultural diversity be grounded upon a set of universal human values? From some recent scientific studies about human nature, it appears that there is surfacing a scholarly judgment of something called a common humanity.

The paper analyzes whether the ideas presented in The Conditions of the Renaissance are still relevant to establish a Nahda within the contemporary postmodern reality. A critical reading of Bennabi’s writings under the theme of civilization, and of The Conditions of the Renaissance in particular, conveys that the

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

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 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

In Malek Bennabi’s judgement, classical Islamic civilization was great in its cultural achievements, but was “a deviant civilization” by the standard of Islamic political values. The reason for this double judgment is the Battle of Siffin and its persistent legacy in Islamic history. Despite all the artistic and scientific fruits of Islamic civilization, the gap was very wide between what was achieved and the Islamic potential, especially in terms of political values. The Battle of Siffin transferred the nascent

"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

The paper seeks to address the thought revival of Malek Bennabi by focusing on the centrality of the concept of historical and social norms in the intellectual project of civilization. It also emphasizes norms and related concepts, which helps us to understand the regeneration mechanisms expressing the essence of the original book written by Bennabi.