The Jurisprudence of Justification and the Psychology of Domestication: A Critical Study of the Arab Intellectual’s Role in Legitimizing Authoritarianism from an Islamic Da’wah Perspective"

Abstract

This study investigates the phenomenon of "cognitive dependency" among Arab academics and intellectuals, highlighting what is termed the "Psychology of Domestication" and how the university institution has been transformed into a "conditioning environment" that produces a justificatory elite. The problem centers on the functional shift of the intellectual from a "guardian of values" and producer of free knowledge to a "functional agent" who harnesses methodological tools to legitimize despotism and rationalize injustice under slogans of "stability" and "blocking the means to evil" (Sadd al-Dhara’i