Malik bin Nabi The Algerian philosopher and his impact on modern Arab philosophy

Who is Malik Bennabi is a contemporary Algerian philosopher nicknamed several titles, including "philosopher of the era" and "jurist civilization" and "theorist of the Islamic Renaissance", devoted all his life to the study of civilizational and intellectual problems and came with deep ideas in the advancement of civilization and the creation of an integrated intellectual project to overcome the problems of civilization through his vision that stems from Islam and inspired by the spirit of the age and science and is an extension of the great scientist "Ben Khaldun" and his writings are a clear map of the renaissance of nations is a foundation of the developed state for each Time and place from the intellectual theoretical point of view, and Bennabi is considered the spiritual father of both the Malaysian and Indonesian experiences, as it is the realistic application of it, in addition to being the first beginning of any civilization, so the ideas of "Malik bin Nabi" were a free ideal model for the developed country, and the manufacture of the best model for civilized society.

His upbringing and life:

Malik Bennabi was born in early 1905 in Constantine to a conservative Islamic family and later moved with his family during his primary school to the city of Tebessa where he studied the Qur'an and primary school at the French school.

Bennabi was entrenched in the soul of the need to resist the colonizer when he heard when he heard when he was young about the migration of many families to Tripoli in the West to avoid contact with the French, and he saw what colonialism brought about in terms of changing the lifestyle of Algerians and their values, where moral and social vices were common, so he adhered to Islam, its morals and values, and learned Arabic so that his identity does not dissolve in the identity of the colonizer.

Malik bin Nabi was influenced by Al-Shehab magazine, which was issued by the Association of Muslim Scholars headed by Abdul Hamid bin Badis, and was influenced by his intellectual methodology that dispelled the control of superstition over the mind.

He traveled to Paris and suffered from unemployment there and devoted himself to intellectual work, so he worked as a journalist in the newspaper "Le Monde" and published his first book "The Quranic Phenomenon" and then rolled his books in Paris, including "Conditions of the Renaissance" and "The Destination of the Islamic World" in which he presented his theory of "colonialism" and the book "Labbek" the idea of African-Asian.

Malik Bennabi in Cairo

Cairo was a dream "Bennabi" is one of the most important sites of change in the Islamic world, arrived in Cairo in 1956 and became his home like an intellectual forum attended by many intellectuals and issued his book "Intellectual conflict in the colonial countries" and then rolled books until they became twenty books and later was chosen as an advisor to the Islamic Conference in Cairo.

The position of Algerian society on the ideas of Ben Malik

Many of the new generations do not know anything about Malik Bennabi or his writings or his intellectual inheritance, they do not know this name as a contemporary Algerian philosopher and thinker, and did not read him a letter and was not mentioned in the education curricula, so he was deliberately absent because of his positions during the liberation revolution, he was not a supporter of socialist thought, which was the basis for the reformist thought of the Association of "Muslim Scholars".

Those who control power saw in his thought what increases the level of awareness of the Algerian people, and a conscious people that is difficult or even impossible to control and impose on them what you see, a theory founded by Bennabi, which is the theory of "colonialism", and for this Bennabi faced many difficulties and was confused in his country and deliberately hid his thought from the youth of his country.

Malik Bennabi wanted Algeria to go in the right way after getting rid of French colonialism in order not to sink into the quagmire of the Third World, so if Bennabi's Renaissance conditions were applied, Algeria's experience today would be a pioneering experience that competes with those in South Korea, Singapore or Malaysia.

Malik Bennabi's theory of social reform in contemporary philosophy

Malik Bennabi considered the human being is the first building block in the renaissance and saw that the renaissance of countries is possible if it is based on planning and application, in Algeria enjoys the elements of civilization from human and material, and the famous saying of Malik Bennabi: "The economy is not a matter of banking and the construction of factories, but before that it is the construction of man and the establishment of his new behavior towards all problems.

The end of Malik Bennabi's career in contemporary Arab philosophy

Malik Bennabi attended a seminar in Syria in 1972 entitled The Role of the Muslim in the Last Third of the Twentieth Century, considered by many to be his will to the Islamic world, and died on October 31, 1973 at the age of sixty-eight.

He left a wealth of social philosophical ideas that represented civilization as a mathematical equation with three variables (earth, man, and time) and the interaction between them. And that civilization is a human production.

He saw the Islamic nation in danger because it had lost many of the motives that it had raised in the past centuries, and that colonialism is a characteristic that facilitates the control of the invaders over the nation, and criticized the politicization of the renaissance and the view centered on the role of power for social reform, which was one of the most important reasons for postponing the process of social renaissance.