The Misery of Secularism A Critical Examination of the Separation of Morality from Religion

Description

The Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane continues his critique of modernity in its reality and its project, which seeks to separate various spheres of life from religion. After his book “The Spirit of Religion,” which examined the secularists’ claim of separating the political sphere from religion, he dedicated the book before you to the claim that advocates separating the moral sphere from religion, giving it a special name: “Secularism.” He extracted the various forms this claim took, which differed according to their conceptions of the relationship between God and humanity, detailing the objections raised against all these secular formulations and conceptions. This critique was distinguished by two fundamental features:

First, it was based on a philosophical theory whose foundations, principles, and issues were laid down by this innovative thinker—namely, the “trust theory”; and second, it also encompassed the imitators among the nation’s intellectuals who followed secular thinkers, exposing the pitfalls of the intellectual subservience into which they had fallen, from intellectual poverty to despair of independence.