The resigned mind in Islam between George Tarabishi and Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri

Abstract

The criticism of the Arab and Islamic mind has had a great deal of writing, which has recurred by its problematic nature, since the discovery of the deep gap separating the general Islamic societies and the countries of the developed world, so that the state of our backwardness is attributed to the failure to implement the mind as a tool for thought that will be based on construction and change. The term “the resigned mind” was coined by Al-Jabri to denote the cognitive decline and thus the shallowness of the civilizational output of the Arab man, which will eventually have a limited-minded, negative effect in exchange for the civilized victorious Western other. The Arab mind, defending the unity of the Arab-Islamic mind against the idea of ​​an epistemological rupture between the Maghreb and the Levant, to conclude with serious revisions to the theory of the resigned mind in Islam.