The intellectual project of Muhammad Asad

Abstract

 Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) is one of the prominent thinkers of Islam in the modern era. He was born in the year 1900 and died in 1992. This article aims to discover his thought, and his search for a new worldview that meets his knowledge curiosity. However, the issue went beyond mere knowledge saturation, and the advancement of the Islamic nation became the only concern. Who devoted his life and his intellectual effort, and the main element around which most of his thoughts, writings and dialogues revolve. the reader of Assad’s intellectual ideas and achievements; noted that it is divided between critical vision; It included criticism of Western civilization and criticism of the reality of Muslims and their history. And a constructive vision that included a statement of the Islamic curriculum, its position on the application of Sharia and the issue of the Islamic state