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Abstract Although modernity is accepted as a phenomenon centered in Europe, there may be other interpretations of its different forms aside from the current concept of modernity. These interpretations may be called the Non-western modernity unlike western modernity, and it is claimed that these interpretations are different and alternative to classical western modernization. The notion of non-western modernity is based on the claim that modernization experiences of non-western societies have been realized by their own social dynamics. In this context the al- Jabrî’s notion of modernity represents as an alternative or native modernity. This kind of modernity expresses a development and progress of cultural and native dynamics centered on reason and the Enlightenment by purifying it from the effects of colonization and imperialism of western modernity.

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