The nahda as a political awakening in the Maghreb: historical and conceptual tensions in Mālik Bennabī’s thought
Abstract
The Algerian thinker Mālik Bennabī (1905-1973) is one of the most important and influent figures of Contemporary Maghrebi and Arab thought. Starting from a wide salafi and nationalistic view, Islam is considered by Bennabī as a cultural and political liberation tool in the colonized areas of the Third World. His ideological conceptualization comes from the salafiyya, as well as from the European nationalistic thought, and in this article it is analysed through the concept of “nahda”, which is one of the methodological and conceptual keywords in his political thought. This concept links also the anticolonialist Arab political thought to the socio-political facts in the nowadays Arab countries.
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