The book introduces a method of dealing with the Arab Islamic intellectual heritage that adopts a scientific methodology that is still taking its first steps to the Arab library by Arab authors, revealing what the philosophical heritage contains in terms of progressive values or material tendencies, and defining the stages of Arab thought.
From the medieval era, from which our intellectual heritage in its various forms was issued until today;
The study of this heritage has been subject to idealistic and metaphysical views and positions, all of which, with their various doctrines and currents, agree on a common line governed by a one-sided view of intellectual achievements in the Middle Arab Islamic era.
Marwa considered that only the historical material approach is capable of revealing that relationship and seeing the heritage in its historical movement, grasping its relative value, and determining what preserves the necessity of its presence in our time as a testament to the authenticity of the objective relationship between the progressive and democratic elements of our cultural heritage, and between the progressive and cultural elements of culture. Nationalism in the present.
However, the meeting between the historical material curriculum and the study of the heritage of Arab and Islamic thought of the medieval era is a very recent meeting among contemporary Arab thinkers.
The book presented a proposal based on the ideas of Marxism, but discussed the emergence, development and maturity of Arab and Islamic philosophy, and the book occupied many thinkers, with some agreeing with him and disagreeing with others' views.
Shafiq Jaradi, director of the Institute of Wise Knowledge for Religious and Philosophical Studies, considered that the book expresses a purely ideological reading against the background of Marxist dialectical materialism, considering that it is one of the books that deviated from the concept of philosophy as an awareness of concepts, but rather the social reality of conflict and contradiction between man and nature and technological development, stressing That this is an ideological proposition, even if it is called scientific philosophy.
While some have argued that material conflicts cannot be considered the product of a specific book or thought, they are an enlightening project that assigns the mind the task of reading heritage and all issues related to matters of the world and the hereafter as well.
He considered that this thought, despite all attempts, has not yet been able to enter the path of modernity to transfer the Arab thought from what it is in to a conscious world that contributes to an Arab intellectual renaissance.