The position of Mr. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Sheikh Muhammad Abdo on Civilizational Revival: Comparative Analytical Study

This research seeks to elucidate the place of some reform leaders in the world of Islam towards the stimulation of Islamic civilization through the application of unique sample obtained through Mr. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Sheikh Muhammad Abdo, where the research pay special emphasis on their intellectual pedigree and approaches in civilizational stimulation, and the essential tools in civilization revival and the features of their projects and later be compared with these two projects.
The most projecting method applied in the study is the historical procedure that the thinkers and the situations they maintained via the various advantages of the analytic method to explain the texts of thinkers from their articles, books and speeches. As for the comparative method, tis was applied to compare their intellectual pedigree and mechanisms in civilizational revitalization, their association with the West, and their view on the causes of decay in civilization.
The results indicated that Jamal al-Din al-Afghani's vision was manifested in the political power of civilization revitalization, whereas Abdo’s vision was manifested in the management of the renaissance via educational and religious institutions. These approaches are necessary to perceive the modern Islamic renaissance, because the mixture of the visions of the revolution and slow change gives the possibility to deal with the internal and external issues of the Islamic nation, and that the effect of their thinking has emerged in the intellectual spectrum that came after them.