From the Arab Renaissance to Modernity

This book deals with a new stage in the philosophical discourse of modernity which began in the second half of the twentieth century. The book examines some of the most salient intellectual questions about the national state, secularism, modernity, and historical movements, and analyzes the texts of some of the most important intellectual figures from the 1960s until present day times.

What makes this book distinguishable is that the author insists, while being certain, that modernity in Arab thought must be understood away from the idea of emulating previous examples, and to recognize that the nature of modernity originated from new perspectives that are separate from the conformity or lack of conformity with previous paradigms, then away from the idea of a single paradigm that ignores the contexts of historical development and the law of accumulation in thought and intellectual phenomena.