الحرية الفردية

الحرية الفردية

Al-Bahi presents individual liberty in thought, politics and wealth as a product of the European Renaissance and a reaction against the Middle Ages (p. 144). He then criticises what he calls its excess: a freedom of thought used to justify colonial tutelage, the economic and political ties of democracy, and the concentration of wealth that marks capitalism (pp. 145, 148, 150). This is the author's critique of the Western model, offered from his own Islamic frame; the book does not survey the debate.