1. Malek Bennabi was an Algerian writer and philosopher, who wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of Muslim civilization.
15 Facts About Malek Bennabi
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Malek Bennabi argued that in order to recover its former magnificence, Islamic society had to become an environment in which individuals felt empowered.
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Malek Bennabi's approach was simple, not parroting what had been discovered before his time, but rather, searching for what constitutes the essence of culture and the birth of civilization.
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Malek Bennabi added that ideas influence the life of a given society in two different ways; either they are factors of growth of social life, or on the contrary, the role of factors of contagion, thus rendering social growth rather difficult or even impossible.
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Malek Bennabi's primary focus was on the term he coined called 'Post-Almohad Men'.
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Malek Bennabi said that in the nineteenth century, the relations among nations were based on power for the position of a nation was dependent on the number of its factories, cannons, fleets and gold reserves.
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Malek Bennabi later criticised the Muslim society for frequently falling into an apologetic state.
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Malek Bennabi said that Muslims today were in a state of disarray.
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Malek Bennabi believed that moral paralysis resulted in intellectual paralysis.
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Malek Bennabi argues that we can split any given civilization into three basic elements: Man, soil and time.
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Renaissance in any society, Malek Bennabi argues, requires a synthesis between these three essential elements.
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In studying many civilizations throughout the written history, Malek Bennabi concludes that every civilization starts with a moral system which usually has its roots in some religious foundation.
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Some groups which are hostile to Malek Bennabi have alleged that he was a Nazi collaborator.
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The Malek Bennabi couple were the subject of several investigations by the DST and were imprisoned at the Pithiviers camp for 18 months, between 1944 and 1946.
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Malek Bennabi wrote more than 25 books, all his works were written between 1946 and 1973.