MaḥmÅ«d Muḥammad ShÄ ker: The Life and Thought of a Non-Stereotypical Anti-Modernist

Yamen Nouh

Asian Social Science, 2023, vol. 19, issue 1, 26

Abstract: MaḥmÅ«d ShÄ ker was an anti-modernist thinker who developed a non-stereotypical stance from Modernity, Colonialism, Orientalism, and contemporary Arab modernists. He developed his literary method that he attributed retrospectively to Islamic pre-modern tradition. MaḥmÅ«d ShÄ ker is a literary critic who could have had some tangencies with many of the prominent intellectual trends in the early and mid-twentieth century, such as Salafism, Arabism, Islamism, and Nationalism. However, if a negative definition is sought to describe him, he can be classified under none of these groups. Magdy Wahba may be correct in what he went for; that MaḥmÅ«d ShÄ ker represents the voice of anti-colonial anger in the conscience of the Islamic orthodoxy. However, I believe that ShÄ ker also represents the Islamic societies’ unrest quest to connect with self after the identity crisis caused by the colonization processes.

Date: 2023
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