Malik Bennabi and the Renaissance Project in Contemporary Arab Thought

Abstract

This study adresses the Importance of Moral and Social Sciences, Rather Than an Absolute focus on the Physical sciences, Which are Considered a Threat to the Arab-Islamic Social system.

The Trajectory of a Society's Civilization, Whether Towards Strength or Weakness, is Closely linked to the quality of the Ideas from Which that Civilization Emerged, as well as the social Climate and Surrounding Circumstances. Therefore, Malek Ben nabi Sought to Realize his Civilizational Project by Relying on the Original Ideas Upon Which Society was Founded in its Initial Historical Renaissance. He was Referring to Islamic Civilization, Which he Intended to use as a Foundation for any Future Civilizational Development. Malek Ben nabi is Considered one of the Most important Pioneers of the Islamic Intellectual Renaissance in the Twentieth Century, and some Even View him as an Extension of Ibn Khaldun's Thought.