The dialectical dualities between the civilizations of the East and the West and their cultural predicate in thinking Amin Rihani
Subject Areas : Contemporary Literature Studies
maryam
hashemi
1
(Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies)
masomh
namati
2
(استاذة مشارکة باکادیمیة العلوم الانسانیة و الدرسات الثقافیة ،طهرا، ایران.)
Keywords: Civilization, Amin al-Rihani, West, Keywords: duality, east,
Abstract :
The dualism of East and West is one of the most frequently used expressions in modern and contemporary Arab discourse, and the problem of communication between them is perhaps the biggest problem the twentieth century world faced during the reign of Rihani and is still facing in the twenty-first century. On the one hand, the general principles and intellectual and cultural foundations of the West are based on humanity or human-centeredness. Industry, giving originality to the tool, belief in the principle of progress, and on the other hand, the characteristics of Eastern civilization and culture (and what is meant here from the East, the geographical area of the Arab countries, including the Arab world) are religiosity, belief in the unseen, practical adherence to religion and religious orders and traditions, and focus on God Almighty and not The exclusivity of the world in matter and the material world, the concern and emphasis on human happiness and the non-exclusivity of knowledge in empirical knowledge. This situation created a strange defect in Al-Rihani's thought. Therefore, the study seeks, using the descriptive-analytical method, to present the proposed solutions to Al-Rihani to remove this imbalance and create an interaction between the two civilizations by counting the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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