Identity Crises in Modern Arabic Thought

The identity crisis is one of the most intellectual crises facing Arab societies after their connection to Western thought and the outcomes of modern Western civilization. As a result of this crisis a fierce conflict arose between what is traditional in Arab thought and what is new and emerging from Western values and ideas. On this basis two themes emerged. They are authenticity which embodies the values that contemporary Arabs inherited from their ancestors in terms of religion thought political behaviour and contemporary which represent the outputs of modern Western civilization in terms of values thought and behaviour. Contemporary Arabs were divided between these two themes acceptance and rejection or an attempt to reconcile them in a way that the book sought to address in its chapters.