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Malik Bennabi

Bennabi asked why societies lose creative power and how they can recover civilizational agency.

BORN 1905 CE · Constantine, AlgeriaDIED 1973 CE · Algiers, AlgeriaERA Modern

NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION

Analyzed decline, colonial domination, and renewal through the conditions of civilization.

THE RECORD

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.