BOOK REVIEW~MALIK BENNABI~
Malik Bennabi. Who’s that? I guess all of you rarely heard this name or never know even a little about him. Am I right? So, who actually this guy? Let have information about this man by reading my review on his background and life below.
Malik Bennabi was a moderate Muslim Algerian thinker who famously produced a work of Theory of civilization. The study was systematically discusses Bennabi’s views on his life and the society he analyzed. He was born on November 1, 1905 in Constantine, Algeria. He came from a moderate family and married with a French woman but they did not have children.
At the young age, Bennabi started to demonstrated signs of intellectual growth and greater personal maturity. He steadily became more aware of the social and cultural changes occurring both Tibissa and Constantine. Meanwhile, when a group of ulama’ who had studied in the Arab East returned to Tibissa, he sensed a new burst of ideas in that town In Constantine, Bennabi was ready to participate in the social and cultural activities of his generation. The press was one of the major means through which he became informed about the political and social events of his environment.
He was really interested with the Wahhabi movement which greatly influenced his thinking. The attack on Sufism and Marabutism make him develop a negative attitude and it decline his assumption before that Wahhabism was to be a savior of the Muslim World. On the ground of his religious and political views, Bennabi became involved in the various activities of the Maghrib Student Association in 1931. While he migrated to Paris, he joined a group of Arab students in establishing a secret association which they represented their countries.
Bennabi achieved his intellectual maturity during the thirties. As an educated person, he was excited with certain contemporary discoveries. Bennabi’s awareness of his role as a Muslim individual with national and social obligations inspired his imagination in a variety of different directions. In 1965,two years after the beginning of the Algerian war, Bennabi managed to emigrate to Egypt because he was clearly motivated by a desire to be a in sympathized with the national cause of his country and which would allow him to act in the favor of that cause.
Nearly to his end of life, he was harassed, questioned, and also beaten after his return to Algeria. He died at his home in Algiers in October 1973 and was officially mourned in Algeria and Libya and publicly by many of his friends and students in the Middle East and Europe.
Malik Bennabi was a moderate Muslim Algerian thinker who famously produced a work of Theory of civilization. The study was systematically discusses Bennabi’s views on his life and the society he analyzed. He was born on November 1, 1905 in Constantine, Algeria. He came from a moderate family and married with a French woman but they did not have children.
At the young age, Bennabi started to demonstrated signs of intellectual growth and greater personal maturity. He steadily became more aware of the social and cultural changes occurring both Tibissa and Constantine. Meanwhile, when a group of ulama’ who had studied in the Arab East returned to Tibissa, he sensed a new burst of ideas in that town In Constantine, Bennabi was ready to participate in the social and cultural activities of his generation. The press was one of the major means through which he became informed about the political and social events of his environment.
He was really interested with the Wahhabi movement which greatly influenced his thinking. The attack on Sufism and Marabutism make him develop a negative attitude and it decline his assumption before that Wahhabism was to be a savior of the Muslim World. On the ground of his religious and political views, Bennabi became involved in the various activities of the Maghrib Student Association in 1931. While he migrated to Paris, he joined a group of Arab students in establishing a secret association which they represented their countries.
Bennabi achieved his intellectual maturity during the thirties. As an educated person, he was excited with certain contemporary discoveries. Bennabi’s awareness of his role as a Muslim individual with national and social obligations inspired his imagination in a variety of different directions. In 1965,two years after the beginning of the Algerian war, Bennabi managed to emigrate to Egypt because he was clearly motivated by a desire to be a in sympathized with the national cause of his country and which would allow him to act in the favor of that cause.
Nearly to his end of life, he was harassed, questioned, and also beaten after his return to Algeria. He died at his home in Algiers in October 1973 and was officially mourned in Algeria and Libya and publicly by many of his friends and students in the Middle East and Europe.