A.hasan Hanafi
The Islamic world today has been co-opted by the West, both systems, interests, structure and culture. This is the impact of colonialism and imperialism.
Islamic society has a very large dependence on the West. World The West is trying to 'hegemony' Islamic culture, including about Islam itself. The West seeks Western understanding of Islam, so that it can be accepted by the world Islam. That is the Western way to uproot the roots of Islamic history from its original source, Alquran and Hadith.
Responding to these conditions, Hasan Hanafi with his Islamic Left was very opposing Western civilization, specifically economic and cultural imperialism. Hasan Hanafi strengthened Muslims by strengthening his own tradition. Therefore, the task of the Islamic Left which is one of its progressive ideas is: First, localizing the West to its natural limits and dismissing world myths West as the center of world civilization and dismiss Western cultural ambitions for a paradigm of progress for other nations.
Second, restore Western civilization to its western boundaries. its origin, suitability to the background behind its history, so that the West is aware that there are many civilizations and many the road to the path of progress. Third, Hasan Hanafi offers a knowledge for making the West an object of study, that is, as he wrote in Muqaddimah f 'Ilm al-Istighrb (Introduction to Occidentalism). Occidentalism for Hasan Hanafi is an attempt to counter Orientalism and tear it down to the roots. To restore the image of Islam, he gave way by reforming religion, awakening rationalism and enlightenment.
B.abid Al jabiriÂ
Muhammad Abid Al Jabiri is a lecturer in philosophy and Islamic thought at the Faculty of Literature, Muhammad V University, Rabat, Morocco. Born in Figuig, Southeast Morocco, 1936. He first entered a religious school, then a national private school (madrasa hurrah wathaniah) founded by the independence movement. From 1951-1953, he studied at an advanced level of senior high school belonging to the government of Casablanca. Along with Moroccan independence, he continued his high school education at diploma level at the Arab High School in the field of Science (science section).
In 1959 Al-Jabiri began his philosophy studies at the University of Damascus, Syria, but one year later he entered the newly established Rabat University. In 1967 he completed the State examination with his thesis entitled, "The Philosophy of History of Ibn Khaldun", (philosophy of al-date 'inda Ibn Khaldun under the guidance of M. Aziz Lahbabi). And completed his doctoral program at the same alma mater in 1970, with a dissertation entitled "Fikr Ibn Khaldun al-Asabiyyah wa ad-Daulah: Ma'alim Nazariyyah Khalduniyyah fi at-Tarikh al-Islami" (Thought of Ibn Khaldun. Asabiyah and State: Signs: -The Paradigmatic Thought of Ibn Khaldun in Islamic History) .
