In cultural Islam

What is the regulating thread between a sample of great figures (Abu Hanifa, Al-Tawhidi, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Khaldun) who are united by the bonds of the Arabic language as a language of thought, culture and expression, and separated - in addition to their times - by the companions of their interests (jurisprudence, philosophical literature, travel, interpreted philosophy) The interpreter, theorized history), even though three of them also practiced the Maliki judiciary plan? With culture in the history of Islam (or cultural Islam), we are generally in atmospheres and contexts with natures and functions that are different from political Islam, as it is dominated by a critical orientation, the implementation of in-depth, enlightening thought, and the pursuit of elevated and developed creativity, far from the primitiveness of thought, in terms of mentality, sensitivity, and awareness. This is what we aspire to demonstrate in this book, and also through texts that we translate from some of the great European philosophers from the ranks of Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche, in addition to scholars who stopped at cultural Islam, not exclusively out of admiration and praise, but mainly through analysis, good understanding, and a sense of fairness...

د. بنسالم حِـمِّيش مفكر وأديب، وزير الثقافة المغربي الأسبق. ترجمت بعض رواياته إلى عدة لغات. اختار اتحاد الكتاب في مصر روايته «مجنون الحكم» ضمن أحسن الروايات المئة للقرن العشرين. من الجوائز والتنويهات: جائزة الناقد للرواية (1990). جائزة الأطلس الكبير (2000). جائزة نجيب محفوظ (2002). جائزة الشارقة لليونسكو (2003). جائزة نجيب محفوظ لاتحاد كتاب مصر(2009). الجائزة الكبرى لأكاديمية تولوز الفرنسية (2011). سميت روايته "معذبتي" في القائمة القصيرة لجائزة البوكر.