Book The causes of the backwardness of Muslims - Chakîb Arsalân - Al-Hadith

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Book The causes of the backwardness of Muslims - Chakîb Arsalân - Al-Hadith

It is clear that Islam has lost its former nobility and is currently suffering from a profound regression while Islamic civilization enjoyed a golden age for centuries.

Chakîb Arsalân gives us a vibrant argument in which he explains the reasons for the decline of Islamic civilization. A critical analysis that sheds light on this decadence while debunking the stereotypes widely conveyed in the West. Thus, we should immediately exclude Islam from the dock when it comes to conscientiously investigating this decline. We learn that Muslims are the only ones guilty of their decline; they lost their prodigious destiny when they turned their backs on their religious and moral ardor.

Emir Chakib Arsalan is a great man of letters, journalist, historian and committed activist. Witness to major events which preceded and followed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, he greatly influenced his time and campaigned for the unity of Arab and Muslim countries with a view to countering European colonial projects targeting them.