The vices of the soul which are born of the passions, in particular, draw their source from the attraction that life here below exerts on the soul. These passions might very well have been inconsequential if they had not been stirred up by the Evil Demon, the very one who swore to mislead Adam's offspring. Lyess Chacal, relying, to do this, on the thought of Abu...

The vices of the soul are legion and yet, their knowledge is essential for who wants to gain eternal happiness and not expose himself to a painful punishment. This is in essence what Abu Hamid al Gazali considers who wrote, among other things, his no less famous lhya' 'ulum al din (Revivification of the sciences of religion) and in which al Gazali devoted an...

After pride (kibr), ostentation (riya') was another of the vices of the soul condemned by Islam. It occupies a unique place there in the sense that devotion imbued with hypocrisy excludes from the circle of believers anyone who devotes himself to it. This is at least the judgment of Abú Hamid al Gazali (1058-1111) famous thinker and theologian who wrote, among...

If, pride is the most known vice and the most condemned by the different monotheistic religious Traditions, it is also the most widespread vice. The Islamic Tradition is rich in writings of all kinds on this subject and the author has chosen here to focus more particularly on the thought of Abu Hamid al Gazali who wrote, among other things, his no less famous...

The ideological struggle, by Malek Bennabi “Ideas can only be neutralized by ideas” Balzac In the heat of the ideological struggle in the Muslim countries, the study of ideas is the culmination of the attention of...

Idea of an Islamic Commonwealth (Malek Bennabi) The Islamic Commonwealth must be conceived as a moral and cultural structure necessary for the resolution not only of the current social crisis of the Muslim countries, but for the resolution of the spiritual crisis of all...

The Koranic Phenomenon - Essay of a Theory on the Koran This study by Bennabi, unique in its genre in terms of meditation on religion and reflection on the Koran, raises the question of the position of the Mohammadian “I” in the phenomenon of the wahy . Bennabi...

Malek Bennabi, the most perfect representative of intellectual virtue, occupies a unique place in Islamic thought where his ideas have no equivalent in the Muslim world. In this work, he dedicates his reflection on major themes: civilization, culture, ideology, democracy, orientalism.

This book was written at a time when the author wanted to "leave (his) Algerian brothers a technique of rebirth", because Bennabi thinks that a rebirth is possible under certain conditions, that is why Les conditions de la Renaissance as a whole is written in this light.

"Ideas can only be neutralized by ideas" , If "we don't fire gunshots at ideas", we nevertheless have extremely refined and subtle tools to control and neutralize them with appropriate mechanisms, just like the skill in execution according to the designs and interests of strategists and planners.