Malek bennabi reddit

Malek Bennabi was a prominent social thinker and Muslim reformer post-world war II. His thoughts on civilization and in particular, Islamic civilization stand remarkable and spectacular. Growing up in a colonial period and under the tyranny of colonizers, where not only the physical condition of his people was at stake, but also their identity and intellectual capacity were in jeopardy. He was, thus, prompted to analyze the root of the problem of colonization. After a long-deliberated analysis, he concluded that the problem of any people lies in things related to their civilization. Consequently, he extensively engaged with the discourses on civilization. He looked at civilization as an equation of three elements, which are man, soil, and time, where religious ideas, or any alternative ideology, act as a catalyst for constructing a civilization. The aim of this paper is, thus, to analyze Bennabi’s thoughts in the light of new developments in the discourse on civilization, especially in the field of historical sociology and social anthropology. To

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