8vo. 168 pp., Arabic text, frontispiece portrait, publiser’s original wrappers, previous owner’s inscriptions on half title page and verso lower cover, biblio, from the series: ‘Ulama’ wa Muffakiroun Mu’asiroun, Lamahatmin Hayatihem was Ta’rif bi Mu’alafatihem No 31, Dar Al-Qalam, Damascus, 2006.

Synopsis

Malek Bennabi (1905–1973) was an Algerian writer and philosopher, who wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of Muslim civilization. He is mostly known for the concept of coloniability which is the inner aptitude of some societies to be colonized.