The Enlightenment Movement in Renaissance Thought (Abdul Wahhab Al-Messiri as A Model)

Abstract

The movement of renaissance, enlightenment, and modernity is a product of modern European capitalist societies that came on the ruins of traditional European societies. Those that witnessed the birth of the religious reform movement in the sixteenth century, which led to the emergence of contemporary Arab rational and modernist intellectuals, characterized by enlightenment and renewal, attempt to replace the thought of the Islamic religious reform movement. Most Arab societies witnessed the birth of current intellectuals that took these movements as a way for them in their call for a renaissance. A kind of imitation and dependence on the West appeared and, emerged from one of the contemporary Arab thinkers; Abd al-Wahhab al-Messiri, who carried the banner of reform and the advancement of the Arab and Islamic nation, trying to present a critical position on the thought of the enlightenment movement that it represents the philosophical basis of Western modernity, prevailing in the contemporary Arab renaissance era, based on its complementary view of the Islamic religion. The finding shows that the Western youth was based on the concept of enlightenment, the scholar's criticism of the enlightenment movement within the framework of its intellectual legitimacy. This is the manifestation of the movement that appears in contemporary Arab renaissance thought.