سؤال الهوية و أزمة الحداثة في الفكر العربي المعاصر

Abstract EN

This article is entitled: The Issue of Identity and the Crisis of Modernity in Contemporary Arab Thought.

We tried to find out how the Arabs and Muslims should be towards the Western modernist project.

To analyze this, we relied on three parts: The first one deals with the crisis as an instigator of identity and which is debated in the Arab societies and expressed by the latent face of Western modernity, which was embodied by the colonial experience of the West against the Arab people.

This indicates the early beginnings of the relationship between the Arab self and the western one, characterized by tension and clash, due to the domination and control exercised on Arab societies.

It is necessary to refer to the systematic policy adopted by the western colonizer in deforming the features of Arab identity; this latter made the Arab self in the position of self defense.

As a solution to this impasse, it was necessary to overcome this crisis, by avoiding the view that shorten history in a single moment, which serves as the black point that prevents us from progressing, also by thinking positively in the present, looking for a better future by separating the ideological side of the modernist project from its cognitive one.

This is what we have analyzed through the second headline, entitled: The need to overcome the crisis and establish an open identity.

Whereas, the third requirement was related to the question of Western modernity and the rethinking of identity.

It revolves on the demand of reconsideration the relationship between the Arab self and the western one, as required by the challenges and current circumstances, which require objectivity and rational thinking, enabling us differentiate between them without losing our identity and originality.