For four years there appeared a periodical bulletin, Que sais-je de l'Islam, in which Malek Bennabi wrote fourteen articles. The guideline, in these articles, of this essential French-speaking Muslim thinker of the 20th century is clear: ...

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...

Unlike one of his "disciples", who titled an article "A book not to be read", Bennabi , who disapproved of this text, did not advise against reading the work of orientalists. He proposed to study the publications of non-Muslims on Islam according to the...

To illustrate his thesis on "the social value of the Koranic notion", Malek Bennabi preferred to write a novel on "the pilgrimage of the poor" where he makes known the experience of the colonized Algerian Muslim. While in French literature, the consumption of alcohol was often supposed to be a sign of "emancipation", Bennabi underlines the possibilities of...

To live up to the hopes it raised, the Afro-Asian movement launched at the Bandoeng conference in April 1955 had to carry out a major project. Because “only great goals can arouse great energies”. Linking "event and history", Bennabi ...

Despite the good reception reserved in France by the critics for "Vocation de l'Islam", Malek Bennabi considered the "Quranic Phenomenon" as the most important of his works. Leaving aside the "contents of faith", he had recourse to several disciplines - phenomenology, the comparative...

The ihya inspired all Muslim authors who wanted to ensure the maintenance of Muslim culture and help the faithful to maintain their convictions and improve their religious knowledge. The interest in al-Ghazali's work grew as the great educational needs of Islam in France...