What is it about?
The modern family in the West is built upon the principle of individualism, which places the individual in a position of importance. This idea has traversed a long historical and semantic journey, marked by tensions and fluctuations that have culminated in tangible historical outcomes. This study aims to critically analyze this trajectory by tracing its main semantic junctures, and to construct a civilizational framework that reinterprets it from a novel vantage point, in an attempt to pave the way for the reframing of the family as a social institution and practical domain with its distinct epistemological and ethical aspects, thus transcending the binary opposition between effacing the individual and positing individualism as the singular foundational principle.
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Why is it important?
The study indicates that the crisis within the Western family is complex and closely linked to modernity’s foundational choices, the constraints of individualism, and the challenges that disrupt balance between the individual and the family institution.
Perspectives
Prof. Hassen Ben Hassen in this study calls for a civilizational perspective on Western family issues, providing it with objective epistemic content and an applicable methodological framework.
Prof Abdallah El Khatib EiC Journal of college of Sharia and Islamic Studies A. Qatar University
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This page is a summary of: أزمة الأسرة في الغرب: قراءة حضارية, Journal of College of Sharia & Islamic Studies, January 2026, Qatar University,
DOI: 10.29117/jcsis.2026.0437.
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