Thinkers
Malik Bennabi
Bennabi asked why societies lose creative power and how they can recover civilizational agency.
Notable contribution
Analyzed decline, colonial domination, and renewal through the conditions of civilization.
Profile notes
- He wrote about colonization as both external domination and internal weakness.
- His work emphasized ideas, persons, and material conditions as ingredients of civilization.
- He influenced later Muslim social and civilizational thought.