Religious Modernists of the Arab World (2) Adonis and a Fundamental Critique of the Islamic Tradition

The distinguishing feature of Adonis from his counterparts in the Arab and Iranian worlds is his attention to the various dimensions of the Islamic tradition and the context in which Arabic poetry was formed. He believes that any fundamental critique of the structure of poetry depends on the knowledge of the sources that inspired it. The author has written this article with the aim of making the audience aware of Adonis’s ideas in the field of Islamic culture. In order to achieve this goal, after introducing Adonis, he explains the meaning of “fixed” and “transformed” in his thought. In addition, it presents examples of imitation and innovation in Islamic culture in Adoni’s views in the field of politics, poetry and literature, and so on. Finally, by stating that critiques of Adonis’s views on Islamic tradition and culture have been written, he points to cases that have not been addressed in current critiques.