The Crisis Of The Arab Intellectual by Abdallah Laroui
The book diagnoses a profound intellectual paralysis in the Arab world rooted in a clash between inherited religious-traditional frameworks and the demands of modernity: many thinkers remain bound to myth, rhetoric, and ideological certainties rather than to critical, historically grounded analysis, and they are often compromised by alignment with political power or simplistic anti-Western reactions. It argues that overcoming this crisis requires developing a genuine historical consciousness, adopting rigorous social-scientific methods, separating intellectual work from authority and myth, and forging an autonomous, self-critical path to modernization that neither imitates the West nor retreats into nostalgic fundamentalism.
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