The knowledge of Hanafi’s thought in the West was marginal not only to the general public, but also to the non-arabisant et islamisant Academy. This book intends to restore this gap, presenting to the reader a significant collection of articles that illuminate the substance of profoundly innovative reflection in the Arab-Muslim and intrinsically revolutionary world of Hanafi. The starting point is Hanafi’s attempt to harmonize, without absorbing each other, the turath, the “heritage” as it is most effectively called in English, with tajdid, or the “renewal” that he felt necessary for the thought and Arab-Islamic society.