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A Critical and Analytical Approach to the Relativity … N. Reggad et al / (33
Introduction contemporary thinkers from
We must agree on an the era of Mohammad Ali
important thing before we Pasha to his history have they
enter the core of the relativistic agreed and their books
theory of religious knowledge, stipulated that there would be
which is that since the end of a renewal in the religious
the nineteenth century, which discourse and a re-reading of
declared the beginning of the the religious heritage so that
Arab Enlightenment until the old heritage would not
today, the main concern of continue to play the role of
thinkers and modernists has shackles that restrict any
been the advancement of the movement and progress that
Arab nation and the removal could be played by the Arab
of the dust of ignorance and its Islamic nation, so several
backwardness, which is the propositions came, including
common goal of all their the exclusion of religion. (Ref:
contemporary scholars of Project of “Zaki Naguib
Muslims and Christians. Mahmoud” and “Sadiq al-Azm”)
Although there were many As a solution that
intellectual trends that they resembles to some extent the
took to achieve their goal from Western Enlightenment movement
Marxist thought to positivism in the fourteenth century -we
and existentialism, and from do not want to go into details
the exclusion of religion from now- including relativism of
society to historical and other religious knowledge, which
points of human thought, does not oblige us to deal
despite the diversity of the religiously with the different
keys to the solution; but all facts that were subject.
