The influence of Western ideological dimensions on understanding the Arab-Islamic heritage, Hisham Djaït as a model

Abstract

This article deals with Hichem Djait's view, the Tunisian thinker (1935-2021), of the Arab-Islamic heritage, as he is preoccupied with Islamic heritage and interested in issues of modernity, criticizing all the classical static fundamentalist visions that were formed around the religious heritage, by presenting a contemporary understanding of the religious text that conforms to the requirements of Western modernity and its multiple intellectual orientations.

This study concluded that Djait’s reading of heritage does not deviate from the data of Western tendency and its ideological currents, theories and philosophical doctrines that are far from the scope of Islamic deliberation and the purposes of Sharia, and this is what led to hitting the foundations of the entire Islamic religious system.