Abstract
NON-WESTERN MODERNİTY OR THE POSSİBİLİTY OF NATİONAL MODERNİSATİON IN MUHAMMED ÂBİD al-JÂBRÎ
Abstract
Although modernity is accepted as a phenomenon centered in Europe, there may be other interpretations of its different forms aside from the current concept of modernity. These interpretations may be called the Non-western modernity unlike western modernity, and it is claimed that these interpretations are different and alternative to classical western modernization. The notion of non-western modernity is based on the claim that modernization experiences of non-western societies have been realized by their own social dynamics. In this context the al- Jabrî’s notion of modernity represents as an alternative or native modernity. This kind of modernity expresses a development and progress of cultural and native dynamics centered on reason and the Enlightenment by purifying it from the effects of colonization and imperialism of western modernity.
Keywords
Modernity, The West, Culture, Civilization, Ratio, Development, Underdevelopment, al-Jabrî, Non-West
