Culture and approach

He researches the biography to form the career and his personal, scientific, intellectual life, and visions, and his poetry collection, his rural environment, and his relationship with the Damanhour society, and the difference between him and modern societies, and depicts the compassionate society, and differentiates between urban and rural bourgeoisie, and mentions the figures who influenced his life and its stages, his teachers, the personalities he met in America or was influenced by elsewhere, the books that affected him, the sciences he was influenced by, and the influences that contributed to his journey back to Islam. He talks about the transformations of Al-Masiri from literary studies to intellectual and political ones, their reasons, and his transition between more than one intellectual current, and the decisive element in his shift from material narrowness to the vastness of humanity, and the effects of Marxist philosophy and others on him. He discusses how the topics of sex, love, and family occupied a place in his writings and transformations, and the role of the cognitive map in determining human behavior in general and sexual behavior in particular, as well as developments in sexual liberation, and the marital relationships between him and his wife. He explains how he obtained his doctorate, and presents the influence of his vision on literary criticism on his teaching style, and his opinion on creativity and its relationship with faith and secularism. He clarifies the role of colonialism in cultural invasion, his interest in art, his preoccupation with writing an encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, and his entry into the world of children and storytelling. He talks about Al-Masiri’s interest in methodology and its reasons, and in curricula, especially among Jews, in Arab countries, and in media, and the impact of methodology on creativity and diversity. He discusses the cognitive map, its content, its meaning, and the models derived from it in the Western and Arab worlds, and its types. He studies the problem of bias, terminology, Darwinian modernity, the concept of material progress, and its impact on human nature and global consumer civilization, and the Western bias towards its modern Western material knowledge model. He addresses metaphor and literalism, the use of metaphor as an analytical tool, its role in interpreting religious texts, solutions and unification, the relationship between the Qur’anic text and reality, and the stances of literalist fundamentalism.