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Nasr al-Din Ibn Ghaneisah’s article revolves around the central question, “Why did Muslims regress and others advanced?” This question poses the core of the crisis in the duality of “us” and “the other,” a duality built on the existing bilateral antagonism and dominance through a chauvinistic view that reflects a negative dark image of the other, and an enlightening rational image of the self. The article presents a historical reading of the impact of Western-centrality (Eurocentrism) in the formulation of the Western "us." It also presents the belief that the “other” has the right to address modernity as the cumulative product of human knowledge, of which the Islamic element is only one of its links. To achieve this, we must review the theoretical and methodological foundations of Western historical discourse and then overcome some of the self-concerns we have.
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