Islam in History and Society

«Vocation de L’Islam» by the foremost Algerian thinker Malik Bennabi (1323/1905 - 1393/1973), here translated to English from French and annotated by Asma Rashid. «Vocation de L’Islam» was written in 1949 but published in 1954 on the eve of the Algerian Revolution. The work, probably the most important of Bennabi's writings, presents an incisive and quite original analysis of the crisis facing the Muslim as well as the Western World. The author's masterly exposition of the twin phenomena of Colonisibilite and colonisation makes him one of the «First Arab and Afro-Asian Social Philosophers of our times,» and his remarkable grasp and critical appraisal of the modern trends in the Muslim world ensures him an honourable place in the forefront of Muslim thinkers of the present century.