تُحاول‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬الورقة‭ ‬أن‭ ‬تبيّن‭ ‬كيف‭ ‬أن‭ ‬شطرًا‭ ‬من‭ ‬خطاب‭ ‬المصلحين‭ ‬المسلمين‭ ‬في‭ ‬العالم‭ ‬العربيّ،‭ ‬بين‭ ‬نهايات‭ ‬القرن‭ ‬التاسع‭ ‬عشر‭ ‬والنصف‭ ‬الأول‭ ‬من‭ ‬القرن‭ ‬العشرين،‭ ‬يستبطن‭ ‬ضربًا‭ ‬من‭ ‬ضروب‭ ‬السّرديات‭ ‬أو‭ ‬المرويات‭ ‬الكُبرى‭ ‬الجديدة‭ ‬التي‭ ‬حاول‭ ‬من‭ ‬خلالها‭ ‬بعض‭ ‬أعلام‭ ‬الفكر‭ ‬الإصلاحيّ‭ ‬الإسلاميّ‭ ‬المعاصر،‭ ‬وعلى‭ ‬رأسهم‭ ‬محمد‭ ‬عبده،‭ ‬أن‭ ‬يكرّس‭ ‬هويّة‭ ‬ثقافيّة‭ ‬وحضاريّة‭ ‬إسلاميّة‭ ‬ذات‭ ‬نزوعات‭ ‬تنويريّة‭ ‬بالمعنى‭ ‬المتعارف‭ ‬عليه‭ ‬عند‭ ‬فلاسفة‭ ‬أوروبا‭ ‬في‭ ‬القرنين‭ ‬السابع‭ ‬والثامن‭ ‬عشر‭. ‬وقد‭ ‬نشأتْ‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬السرديّة‭ ‬في‭ ‬شروط‭ ‬تاريخيّة‭ ‬مخصوصة‭ ‬موسومة‭ ‬بتسلّل‭ ‬الخطاب‭ ‬العلماني‭ ‬إلى‭ ‬الفكر‭ ‬العربيّ‭ ‬المعاصر‭ ‬خلال‭ ‬تلك‭ ‬المرحلة‭. ‬بيد‭ ‬أن‭ ‬متغيّرات‭ ‬الواقع‭ ‬العربيّ‭ ‬خلال‭ ‬القرن‭ ‬العشرين‭ ‬لم‭ ‬تتح‭ ‬لهذه‭ ‬السرديّة‭ ‬أنْ‭ ‬تتطوّر‭ ‬وتتكرّس‭ ‬في‭ ‬الثقافة‭ ‬العربيّة،‭ ‬بل‭ ‬بالعكس‭ ‬عرفت‭ ‬انتكاسًا‭ ‬واضحا‭ ‬مع‭ ‬هيمنة‭ ‬سرديات‭ ‬خطاب‭ ‬الإسلام‭ ‬السياسيّ‭ ‬ومتخيّلاته‭.‬

This paper aims to clarify how a part of Muslim reformers’s discourse‭ ‬in the Arab world‭, ‬between the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century‭, ‬contained‭ ‬a new grand narrative through which some reformers‭, ‬led by Muhammad Abdo‭, ‬tried to establish an Islamic identity Influenced by‭ ‬the European Enlightenment as it was known in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‭. ‬This narrative arose in specific historical conditions marked by the infiltration of secular discourse into contemporary Arab thought‭. ‬However‭, ‬the changes in the Arab‭ ‬context during the twentieth century did not allow this narrative to develop and be enshrined in Arab culture‭. ‬On the contrary‭, ‬there was a clear setback with the dominance of the narratives of political Islam›s discourse‭.‬