I am not exaggerating if I say that my intellectual experience is the experience of a generation. It is the experience of a generation of my parents and intellectual peers in the Arab countries, who have been keen – throughout their journey – to achieve two complementary goals: the first of which is to acquire, since childhood – through self-effort and thanks to their passion for knowledge and their hunger to explore its various fields – with a culture in which a broad and deep knowledge of cultural heritage is intertwined and integrated. And the Arab-Islamic civilization, while devouring the various offerings of ancient and modern Western sciences, literature, and arts. The second is to delve into the concerns of their Arab society and nation, search for the causes of its backwardness, and work with thought and struggle to overcome that backwardness and to generate a unified, modern, and integrated Arab entity that provides its giving to the Arab nation and the rest of the peoples of the world.

With the progress of time, these cultural and national concerns began to grow more mature in me, and expanded in giving, and began to carry, combine, and generate various types of scientific, intellectual, and national production, in various fields, and in multiple images and forms, but they are taken together and regulated by one contract, which is the contract of theoretical and practical work in order to build an Arab entity. An advanced and invincible person who, through his openness and giving, elevates all of humanity. He also elevates himself and extracts his full potential through his dialogue with and interaction with others.

Thus, I contributed, along with the rest of my members of that generation, to this building process: building my culture, whose roots extend to the Arab-Islamic heritage and whose fire is fueled by its living connection with the culture of the modern era, and then building my integrated vision of the desired Arab entity, the unified, free, just, and advanced entity. This contribution of mine was evident in my nationalist books in particular, the most important of which is collected in the book (Nationalist Works 1957-1965), and in my persistent nationalist struggle since the early forties of the last century.