Vocation of Islam

Introduction

Published in Paris in 1954, the book examines the history of the Muslim world and the reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bennabi describes the “post-Almohad” society that had lost its creative impulse and criticises reformers and modernists who defended Islam apologetically without changing social reality. He argues that a renaissance requires a new orientation of people and ideas. The book was translated into English as “Islam in History and Society”.

Connections

Builds on

• The Conditions of the Renaissance1949 · Malek Bennabi

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