The Problem of Ideas in the Muslim World, by Malek Bennabi, Collection Malek Bennabi

The Problem of Ideas in the Muslim World, Collection Malek Bennabi

In the problem of ideas in the Muslim world, Malek Bennabi shows the primordiality of the idea, as a force, as a dynamic. It is the basis of all action, of all possible change. Without the idea, there is only decline, and this is what caused the fault of the Muslim man who preferred to attach himself to the world of things rather than to the world of ideas.

In this work, Malek Bennabi inscribes the necessary need for a return to thought, to dynamic, living, and not sclerosing and pompous intellectual enrichment. He recalls that the breath of Koranic revelation was intimately linked to the notion of idea, of recall to the spirit, to the intellect, through the first verses revealed: “Read ! ". Thus man is made to build a world based on ideas, before building a world fixed on the obsession of the thing.

This captivating book completes The Problem of Culture, through a reflection little encountered until now in the Muslim intellectual sphere.

About the Author: Malek Bennabi

Malek Bennabi (1905-1973) studied the problems of civilization in general and those of the Muslim world for a long time. Strongly imbued with Arab-Muslim and Western culture, we owe him the concept of "colonizability", a concept characterizing societies in decline. He has to his credit more than twenty books dealing with civilization, culture, ideology in general and problems related to the stagnation of Muslim society in particular. Through his writings, Malek Bennabi wanted to awaken Muslim consciences and relaunch a renaissance of Muslim society.