-The Concept of Dystopia in Islamic Thought and Western thought - a critical approach

Abstract

This study seeks to root the concept and term "Dystopia" in Arab-Islamic thought, which preceded its appearance in Western thought by several centuries, and to attempt to highlight the most important differences between them. Although the two concepts are interconnected in both thoughts, the nature of the interconnection is different between them, because it is a concept, before becoming a literary classification for certain narrative works in the 20th century. It was a political concept, addressed both by Al-Farabi in the 10th century and by John Stiwart Mill in the 19th century. In discussing the difference between them, and the nature of the term's fundamental references in Islamic thought, we conclude that the status of the concept in the religion constitutes the fundamental difference.