Formulation of the Claim
The contemporary Arab-Islamic crisis arises from a double break: with creative tradition and with modernity at the same time.
Why Do These Elements Come Together?
These elements come together because the page frames the crisis as a double rupture: a rupture from a tradition that could have been a source of creativity, and a rupture from modernity as a historical experience grounded in critique and transformation. The crisis is therefore not understood here as a single malfunction, but as a breakdown on two fronts at once: the front of cultural memory and the front of engagement with the conditions of modernization.
This idea appears in pages that diagnose the condition of contemporary Muslim societies as cut off from both their tradition and European modernity, then connect this rupture to the need to revisit modernity and deconstruct discourse, as well as to human values, open secularization, and the historical reading of Islam. Through these links, the crisis is defined not as an isolated event, but as a field of interwoven relations among tradition, modernity, religion, the public sphere, and creativity.
The Collection’s Place in the Book
This page belongs to the sequence that explains the blockage of the present while linking it to criticism of tradition and criticism of modernity. It brings together the atlas’s nine books around one question: how can the contemporary crisis be understood as a crisis of rupture from the sources of inner creativity and from the conditions of critical modernization at the same time?
Elements of the Collection
- Contemporary Muslim societies suffer a double rupture
- European modernity
- Activating humanism requires revisiting modernity and deconstructing discourse
- Modern history and the open state are contingent on human values
- Open secularization separates religion from the public sphere without exclusion
- European modernity emerged from rupture and self-critique
- Reading Islam historically reveals the crisis of Arab creativity
Brief Evidence
The contemporary crisis is understood here as a blockage produced by two linked ruptures: a rupture from creative tradition and a rupture from critical modernity. The issue is not a rejection of the past or a mere reproduction of the present, but the inability to enter into a productive dialogue with both at once. That is why diagnoses of the crisis appear alongside questions of humanism, secularization, and the state on this page, because all of them revolve around the conditions for moving beyond blockage. The elements converge to suggest that creativity returns only through a historical reading that reconnects what has been severed.
Conclusion
This page brings together the diagnosis of blockage, the comparison of modernity, and the determination of the conditions of humanism, secularization, and the state, then reconnects all of this to the possibility of creativity through historical reading.