Arab Thought Between Authenticity and Renewal: Mohamed Aziz El-Hababi and Hichem Djait as Models

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The book Arab Thought Between Authenticity and Renewal by Dr. Nawal Abbasi presents a deep intellectual journey to explore the underlying causes of the backwardness of the Arab and Islamic world, and how to find solutions to emerge from this crisis in a way compatible with its history and creed. The study sheds light on the contributions of contemporary thinkers such as Mohamed Aziz El-Hababi and Hichem Djait, and reviews the solutions they offered in this regard. The book departs from the problematic of authenticity and modernity that has occupied the thinking of many philosophers and thinkers since the age of renaissance. Between a current calling for return to heritage and clinging to it, and another calling for imitating the West in whole and detail, this research presents a third current combining authenticity and renewal. The study tackles El-Hababi's intellectual project which focused on personalism, trying to give it an Islamic coloring to be a support against currents that stripped man of his humanity. In contrast, the book reviews Djait's intellectual project which adopted the secular method, believing it to be the way to save the Arab world from its crisis. Through the analytical critical method and the comparative method, Dr. Nawal shows.