Friday 18/April/2025 – 11:35 am
Dr. Mohamed Othman Al -Khasht, the former president of Cairo University, chaired a session entitled: Citizenship in contemporary reality .. The controversy of rooting and modernization, as part of the activities of the Citizenship, Identity and Celebrity Certainty Values, organized by the Mohammed bin Zayed University of Humanities in Abu Dhabi.
This came in the presence and participation of the scholar Abdullah bin Bey, the head of the Emirates Forensic Fatwa Council, the Emirati thinker Dr. Khalifa Al Dhaheri, Director of Mohammed bin Zayed University for Humanities, and a group of scholars, thinkers and institution leaders from all over the world.
Among the attendance of the session was Dr. Nazir Ayyad, the Mufti of the Egyptian Diyar, who conducted an intervention at the end of the lecture. The session was also witnessed by Dr. Shawky Allam, the former Egyptian Mufti, Dr. Sami Al -Sharif, Secretary General of the Islamic Universities Association, Wu, Sheikh Rashid bin Muhammad Al -Hajri, Chairman of the Sunni Endowments Council in the Kingdom of Bahrain and a group of university deans and professors.
The fear suggests an intellectual project that rebuilds intellectual references
In his speech, Dr. Muhammad Al -Khasht presented a research paper that dealt with the crisis of contemporary Arab thought in dealing with the deep intellectual diodes and its impact on the formation of identity and coexistence in Arab societies.
During the session, Dr. Al -Khasht indicated that Arab thought faces a structural predicament represented in its inability to overcome firm dualities such as: heritage and modernity, mind and transmission, religious and worldly, identity and cosmic, originality and contemporary, explaining that these dualities are no longer just theoretical issues, but rather turned into sharp divisions in intellectual references, hindering the construction of a new philosophical mind capable of interacting with the challenges of the times.
Dr. Al -Khasht presented a new proposal that is based on overcoming these conflict dualities by establishing a renewed intellectual project that rebuilds intellectual and religious reference on rational, human and moral foundations, calling for the activation of the critical mind in dealing with heritage, and stressing that Arab thought will not exceed its crises unless it comes out of itself from the families of the duets and establishes a new compound mind that leads to human understanding, and establishes a religious era. New open, rational, and multiple.
Dr. Muhammad Al -Khasht explained that this transformation is inspired by the concept of “interactive dialectical transgression”, as it does not mean the total negation and complete cancellation as it does not mean success, but rather the restoration of the basic elements between the two extremes in a more new compound and form that goes beyond traditional polarizations, with clear discrimination between the sacred and human, between religious and sectarian, and editing texts from the authority of rigid interpretation.
Dr. Al -Khasht also presented five major rational pillars to modernize the religious and intellectual reference: the distinction between the Holy and the human, the separation between religious and sectarianism, returning to the essence of the founding texts, liberating man from the rigid transport authority, and rebuilding references on humanitarian and historical foundations.
He also presented a classification of the patterns of references prevailing in Arab thought, stressing that Arab thought will not advance as long as we reproduce the same intellectual duets, stressing the importance of the vicious dialectical style that exceeds the diodes to establish a new reference that is more able to interact with the reality of diversity and pluralism, and to build civil societies that respect freedoms and reject tyranny.
At the end of his speech, Dr. Al -Khasht emphasized that the Arab thought exceeds its crises requires rebuilding its reference structure, and establishing a new critical approach that opens up to man and history and paves the way for a new religious era based on rationality, openness, and pluralism, in a way that guarantees the firmness of the national state and enhances the values of citizenship and coexistence in the Arab world.
Dr. Nazir Ayyad, the Grand Mufti of the Egyptian Diyar, presented a rich discussion at the end of the session, in which he thanked Dr. Mohamed Al -Khasht, and said that the idea of the dualism that he presented is correct one hundred percent, indicating that dealing with the heritage with everything that it carries should be seen in its context, its place and the time of its writing and according to the circumstances and events, especially since this heritage carries a lot within it, stressing the necessity God Almighty revealed it, and among those affiliated with him, it is wrong and injustice to judge religion with the behavior of some of the associates, which comes as an agreement with what was previously emphasized by Dr. Al -Khasht in his book “Towards the Establishment of a New Religious Age” in the fifth chapter under the title of the renewal of Muslims, not Islam.
