Hasan Hanafi and Abid Al Jabiri

Hassan Hanafi is a professor and chairs the philosophy department at Cairo University. He is a leading authority on modern Islam. Hanafi was born into an artistic family in Cairo. As a youth he studied the violin, which he continues to play to this day.

In the first agenda Hasan Hanafi has published a monumental work entitled Min al Aqidah ila ats-tsawrah. The book has been translated by paramadina with the title From Aqeedah Towards the Revolution. Whereas the second agenda makes Occidentalism a totally new scientific discipline in Islamic thought. He mentioned the study as a critique of the portrayal and formation of western consciousness structures