The problem of the Renaissance in contemporary Arab thoughtA comparative study between Muhammad Amara and Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri

Abstract

The research aims to reveal the problem of the Renaissance in contemporary Arab thought, represented by two thinkers who represent two different cases: one of them belongs directly to the revivalist religious reform movement and considers himself a descendant of this movement, while the second is the son of the Moroccan rationalist school imbued with the works of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. Which is fundamentally concerned with the content of the text more than its appearance, and what it hides more than what it reveals, and searches for more meanings between the lines than the lines themselves, to reveal the subconscious motives of discourse and heritage more than those rational motives that the heritage text seeks refuge in, in their dealing with the issue of the revival of the Renaissance in The parts of the intellectual and material body as a self that is not alienated from itself, its civilization, or the achievements of the era. The research concluded with several results, including that the intellectual reference of a philosopher will limit the options and horizons of his renaissance. Likewise, for the two philosophers, heritage represented a preliminary precursor to the hoped-for Arab renaissance, until their perception of evoking heritage seemed different. The research also showed that the determinants of identity will contribute to crystallizing our vision of what it is. Renaissance and how and how to achieve it, The research also showed the importance of identifying the other that is comparable to the cultural self and the difference in this perception, so that the identity study ends with an explanation of the inability of the Arab self to be liberated from dependency   on the other, and thus the inability of this self to revive its renaissance before it is liberated from its dependency on the other. The research finally clarified the position of both Muhammad Amara and Al-Jabri are among the Arab intellectual liberation projects to correct the shortcomings that plague them.