The problem of Islam and modernity in contemporary Arab Thought Hamadi Al-Redissi as a model

Abstract

This research aims to understand the relationship between Islam and Western modernity, according to the approach of Tunisian thinker Hamadi Redissi, who highlighted Islamic exceptions that hinder development and catching up with Western civilization. These exceptions included philosophical problems related to freedom of expression, capitalism, secularism, and democracy.

Redissi reaches the shocking conclusion that the Muslim mind, in its approach to political issues such as democracy, returns to the idea of integrationism, which was espoused by Islamic philosophers in the Middle Ages. The same narrative pattern is used to address issues of economics, women, freedom of artistic expression, thought, and law.