معالم النهضة الإصلاحية عند إباضية الجزائر

The research Abstract

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The reformation renaissance has faced during its path hard and tedious social conditions which constitute constraining hurdles. These are represented essentially in the thinking stagnation، ignorance، colonialism، poverty and infatuations.

By the mid nineteenth century the reformation renaissance reached the stage of its strength، maturity and reign، and becomes a leader of the Ibadits of Algeria in the M'zab valley، its orienting force and its primary acting force.

The Ibadits of Algeria was favored by the Azzaba System' with its traditional and social institutions which acted on protecting the Ibadit society from fragmentation and delinquency and on holding it at a certain level of piousness and acceptability to be guided towards the right path and assuming the Islamic basic principle of 'enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong'. This system has also succeed to keep the slightest line of reformation without interruption and the weakest light of renaissance without being extinct despite the serious general state of society.

The renaissance idea means in its depth the rebirth of the society on the bases of Islam in its sources، dogma، jurisdiction، its ethics and its values، and purifying/refining it from corruption، delinquency and wrong novelties within the framework of the Ibadit sect، and within the Mozabite Amazigh (Berber) traditional esperience، by active interaction with the contemporary time in an endeavor to embrace its new issues and preoccupations and aiming at founding an original and modern Moslem society.

The renaissance idea has been shaped in its depth from the Islamic civilization heritage according to the conception of the Ibadit sect and the M'zab society; then it has been opened towards the external world from which it has benefited much. Besides، this renaissance has inspired its experience from the Islamic thought coming from the East represented essentially in Egyptian Reformation Movement and the Tunisian Scientific and Political Movement.

The reformation renaissance in its transformation into a well-shaped movement during the 1920 s has restrained a operational plan in order to make the reformation sought، and to put it into practice on the field making use of a number of frameworks، institutions and establishments;