الدراسات الإسلامية
Volume 23, Numéro 2, Pages 103-108
2023-10-31
The Defects In Bennabi's Renaissance Project
Authors : Ahmad Usman .
Abstract
The question of retardation had been one of the great, if not the greatest, concerns of every Muslim thinker since the first direct contact of the Islamic world with the west in the 18th century. Different perspectives, sometimes, even conflicting, were proposed by legion of thinkers on how to approach and solve the problem, for the Islamic world to catch up with the wave of advancement and play its civilisational role. From political, economic, cultural, to pedagogic and religious dimensions, depending on thinker's intellectual background or preference. Amongst which a special model, called ‘civilizational’ dimension proposed by the prominent Algerian thinker, Malek Bennabi, remains exceptional for its insightfulness and comprehensiveness. Malek wrote extensively about the problem of retardation in the Islamic world in a series of books titled “civilizational bankruptcy” and proposed solutions. Withal, Bennabi’s project basically examined the historical sociology of the formation, evolution, decline, and death of cultures and civilization, and presented it as a universal architectural blueprint for civilisational development. This paper aims beyond simply debating the superiority of Bennabi’s theoretical project, or descriptive account of his works. Instead, it unearth the perceived flaws and deficiency of that Renaissance project, in both its theoretical framework and methodological approach, that remained somewhat overlooked by most researchers..
Keywords
Bennabi; Defects; Renaissance; Project; Islamic
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