TRADITIONALISM AND MODERNISM IN MODERN ARAB THOUGHT
TRADITIONALISM AND MODERNISM IN MODERN ARAB THOUGHT

Summary/Abstract: Without being limited to its Islamic dimension, modern Arab thought may be viewed as a philosophical and epistemological set of movements and trends that describes, analyzes and reviews intellectual, political, religious and current sociopolitical realities. There are four main movements in current Arab thought that contribute to its specificity: Islamic, nationalist, liberal and Marxist, by means of which, symptoms, diagnosis and solutions of Arab intellectuals to challenges generated by both Western modernity, in general, and also by the crisis of the sacred in the modern world have been presented, between tradition and modernity, and that are mostly Muslim.

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