As in his book which has been published by the Occidental Occadians; Our Attitude Towards Western Traditions which in its original title Muqadimah Fi Ilm Al Istighrab. In the work he invited his readers to wage jihad against the west, precisely to do theology for the sake of liberation. When viewed from the theoretical-philosophical interpreter, the character of Hasan Hanafi's left revolutionary thought. As someone who has a strong sense of reality, Hasan Hanafi has a very empirical or down to earth view. As a reformer Muslim he was a cultural bearer who was critical of Islam and a thinker of Islamic civilization. Cultural strategies as a conscious effort by humans to transcend difficulties, obstacles, and even contemporary and contemporary issues.
Hasan Hanafi has such great concern about the real problems of Muslims, such as injustice, oppression, colonialism. This thinking is in line with his friend Ali Syariati, one of the same Iranian ideologists studying at the Sorbone. Hasan Hanafi in a comprehensive cultural strategy known as the project of tradition and modernization. In the project he set out three main agendas for our attitudes toward tradition, our attitude towards western traditions, and our attitude towards reality. The three agendas are dialectics of the ego with itself, namely the inheritance of the past, and dialectics with others, in a particular time medium that is dialectics with the present. These three agendas by Hasan Hanafi are acts that are not merely intellectual exercises, but are indeed shown as real changes in the Islamic world.
