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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
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IN THE NAME OF GOD THE COMPASSIONATE THE MERCIFUL
*THIS DAY IN HISTORY
*The 31st of October 1973
*The Death of the Great Thinker Malek Bennabi
*Elapsed Time: 37 years.
Name: Malek Bennabi Place of Birth: City of Constantine-Eastern Algeria
Date of Birth: January 1st, 1905
Profession: Social and Religious Philosopher
His Life:
Regarded as one of the greatest Islamic thinkers of the twentieth century, may God have mercy on him, Malik was born in the city of Constantine in the Eastern part of Algeria on January 1st, 1905, of a poor family and a very conservative Algerian culture.
After birth, Malik’s family moved to Tébessa where he enrolled in a primary and lower secondary education, happily he succeeded in the ‘Examination of Grants’ (an exam made specifically for students whose families can't afford to pay for their education) and was rewarded a grant to continue his studies in the city of Constantine . There he spent the first year of study (1921-1922) in an environment full of patriotism and thoughts of reform after the First World War. Malik studied in the same school as nationalist feeling professors, who taught in Arabic and planted in him the seed of national unity and love. Contrarily, he also studied at the hands of racist French professors, who made him feel and understand the pain of French colonialism and their goal of depersonalization from anything Islamic and Arabic , as well as distorting the history of the country.
After graduating from high school and finishing four years of study, in June 1925, Malik had an eagerness to go to France in order to further his education and expand on his knowledge. Therefore he and his friend Waqawao got on a ship from skikda to Marseille, in search of work. They found work at a cement factory in Notredame – lorette, where they had to carry heavy 50Kg bags. Later switching to work at a juice factory, soon after disillusioned he realized that there is nothing for him in France and so he returned to Algeria .
After returning, Malik found a position in the Courthouse of Aflou, a city to the south of Algeria , in March 1927. In Aflou, was the school where he realised that the virtues of the great knowledge of the Algerian people were still sound and unaffected, such as before the colonialism tide swept in, wreaking havoc.
After spending one year there, Malik returned to Tebessa in March 1928 and went into business with his brother-in-law, which ended up causing him severe stress because his partner and brother-in-law had a family in need of food. (why?)This brought up the idea of travelling abroad again, but in a more reasonable and better planned manner. This time, his mother said to him: "Go to Paris and continue your studies" that's when his father added: "Know that Ibn Stiti studied a year at the School of Oriental languages, after completing his studies at the same school as you, he then enrolled in the Faculty of Law. We'll send you what you need (money) every month".
Three days later, Malik took the next ship from Annaba to Marseille, and from there he went to Paris by train, until he arrived at Lyon Station on the morning of September 1930, declaring that he will not return, in the manner of the summer of 1925.
This time the journey was a serious educational journey, a journey in which Malik had an ambition to study in "the Institute of Oriental Studies in Paris " hoping to graduate as a lawyer. He prepared well for the enrolment exam. Thus he took the exam full of confidence of success, but the result was disappointing, he reported: "I was called by the Director of the Institute, in the dignified calmness of his office, he informed me of the unlikelihood of being accepted to his faculty no matter how many times I tried, his words made it very clear to me: The entry to the Institute of Oriental Studies, to the Algerian Muslim, is not based on a scientific measure, but on a political one.
The words of the director came down on my ambitions as the guillotine would go down on a condemned's neck.... On that day, not only was my hope broken, but I felt that the dream of my mother and my father had crashed on the rock."
Malik started afresh by amending his goals and objectives, so he enrolled into the School of Engineering Faculty of Wireless, not far from the (Institute of Oriental languages), which would make his intentions seem purely technical and scientific instead of being judicial and political.
Malik was engrossed in his study and intellectual life. In 1935 he graduated as an electrical engineer making him the first Algerian electrical engineer. At this time he started pursuing his dream of writing and started writing articles about the issues surrounding the Islamic world and in the year (1946) he published his first book "The phenomenon Quranic". Between year 1948 and 1955, he published articles in the "Republic of Algeria " and "the young Muslim" newspapers. He wrote close to 300 articles, through which his school of thought grew bigger and became more popular in the Arab world. He married a French woman and chose to reside in France , but frequently visited Algeria with his French Muslim wife (Khadija). During those years he also published two books, "The conditions for rebirth" in 1948 and "The problem of ideas in the Muslim World" in 1954.
Although Malik was part of the Algerian revolution and played an important part in standing against the French occupation, he moved to Cairo after the announcement of the armed revolution in Algeria (1954) after he was denied being sent to the Algerian-Tunisian borders to help with the war. In Egypt , he earned the respect of fellow thinkers and philosophers. From then on, his work started to flourish and gain popularity in Algeria and in the Arab world. After the independence of Algeria, he returned home and was appointed Director of Higher Education, which back then was confined to (the University of Algiers) until he resigned in 1967, wanting to focus on his writing. Starting with the first part of his memoirs entitled the "Memoirs of this century's witness" which was published first in French, then translated into Arabic by Marwan Alguenwati in year 1969.
Shortly after and under the same main heading, he added the second part, which was published in 1970 and he used the name of (the student) in the title to relate to the part of his life when he studied in France starting in 1930. Part III remains as a manuscript after his death in 31-10-1973.
At the end of his life, Malik suffered great strain and pain in his eyes and head after falling down a set of stairs at his home. Despite treatment abroad he remained affected by this incident and on October 31st, 1973 Malik Bennabi, scholar of civilization, and the most renowned Muslim thinker of our time, died in Algiers leaving behind work designed specifically to help thinkers of the twenty-first century create a new road leading to the convergence of many different civilizations, including the formation of a "humanitarian civilization". May Allah's mercy be with his soul and may his name shine as a guiding star for every soul and mind for eternity.
His Books:
Place of Publication
Year of Publication
Title of Publication
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Algiers
1946
النجدة … الشعب الجزائري يباد
الصراع الفكري في البلاد المستعمرة
الصعوبات – علاقة النمو في المجتمع العربي
الإستعمار يلجأ إلى الإغتيال بوسائل العلم
مذكرات شاهد القرن ( القسم الأول )
إنتاج المستشرقين و أثره في الفكر الإسلامي الحديث
مذكرات شاهد القرن ( القسم الثاني – الطالب )
مشكلة الأفكار في العالم الإسلامي
دور المسلم و رسالته في الثلث الأخير من القرن العشرين
(مجالس دمشق ( مجموعة محاضرات باللغة العربية
Les conditions de la renaissance (Conditions of a Renaissance)
Vocation de l'islam (Vocation of Islam)
Le problème des idées dans le monde musulman (Problem of Ideas in Muslim World)
Le phénomène coranique (The Quranic Phenomenon)
Lebbeik (First and only novel that attracted interest of French filmakers, due to the seductions and attractions he received, the writer decided no more to involve in novelry, but to engage himself for noble causes)
La lutte idéologique (The Ideological Struggle in Third World Countries)
L'Afro-asiatisme (Afro-asiatisme)
Islam et Démocratie (Islam and Democracy)
Dans le souffle de la bataille.( Within the breath of the battle)
S.O.S Algérie (Save Algeria)
Idée d'un commenwealth islamique (An Idea of Islamic Commenwealth)
Naissance d'une société (Birth of a Society)
Perspectives Algérienne (Algerian Prescriptives)
Mémoires d'un témoin du siècle, tome1 et tome2
Le rôle du musulman dans le dernier tiers du 20ème siècle
Le role du musulman dans le monde de l'economie (The Role of the Muslim in the world of economy)
Le livre et le milieu humain(inedit 2006)(Book and Human Milieu)
l'Oeuvre des orientalistes (The Result of Orientalists)
Contemplations (Reflections)
Le Musulman dans le Monde de l'Economie
Memoires d'un temoin du siecle, 2 first volumes (the Child, The Student
Memoires d'un temoin du siecle, 4 with two added unpublished volumes (The Writer and Notes)
Malek Bennabi wrote more than 25 books, all his works were written between 1946 (The Quranic Phenomenon) and 1973. Yet, due to Mr.X whom he calls the imperialist enemies, many of his works are ceased from being published,some were lost or censored.
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