Renewal, Prohibition and Interpretation; Between Scientific Knowledge and the Fear of Excommunication

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He discusses the impact of fear of interpretation and prohibition on thought and science in Islamic societies

Renewal is a constant need, a social, political and cultural process without which life freezes, and cultures enter the tunnel of extinction and death. Every renewal has its own historical, social, political and intellectual context. Renewal does not stem from a personal desire or personal whim. For this or that thinker, it is not a flight in the world of knowledge or mysticism that is rooted in the soil of life and its clay, and in the sweat of people and their struggle in the paths of creating a better life. Without limits, renewal becomes more urgent when social, political, economic and cultural conditions become critical, and are reflected in thought and scientific activity, as well as in all aspects of life. And here we are now living this crisis that has been transformed due to the weakening of society’s resistance into a kind of stagnation, until we accepted that we are weak and began to live in a state of miserable waiting for what the wars raging in our region will result in, while we boast and ruminate on the victories of the past.
For studies and research in this book, Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu Zaid addresses three titles: renewal, prohibition, and interpretation in the context of defending freedom of opinion, freedom of thought, and rejecting cognitive oppression parallel to political oppression.

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