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The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and a fundamentalism that would reconstruct the present in the image of an idealized past.

Both past and present intellectual currents are examined. Al-Jabri first questions the current philosophical positions of the liberals, the Marxists, and the fundamentalists. Then he turns to history, exploring Arab philosophy in the tenth and twelfth centuries, a time of political and ideological struggle. In the writings of Ibn Hazm and Averroës, he identifies the beginnings of Arab rationalism, a rationalism he traces through the innovative fourteenth–century work of Ibn Khaldun.

Al-Jabri offers both Western readers and his own compatriots a radical new approach to Arab th

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Walid Hamarneh
  • Author's Introduction
  • Part One: A Different Reading of the Tradition Discourse
    • Chapter I: The Present Shortcomings
    • Chapter II: For a Scientific Critique of Arab Reason
  • Part Two: Philosophical Thinking and Ideology
    • Chapter III: Historical Dynamics of the Arab-Islamic Philosophy
    • Chapter IV: The Rise and Fall of Reason
    • Chapter V: The Andalusian Resurgence
  • Conclusion: The Future Can Only Be Averroist

ArabIslamic Philosophy

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      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 1 July 1999
      ISBN-13 9780292704800
      978-0292704800
      ISBN-10 0292704801
      Also in:
      Islamic and Arab philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and a fundamentalism that would reconstruct the present in the image of an idealized past.

      Both past and present intellectual currents are examined. Al-Jabri first questions the current philosophical positions of the liberals, the Marxists, and the fundamentalists. Then he turns to history, exploring Arab philosophy in the tenth and twelfth centuries, a time of political and ideological struggle. In the writings of Ibn Hazm and Averroës, he identifies the beginnings of Arab rationalism, a rationalism he traces through the innovative fourteenth–century work of Ibn Khaldun.

      Al-Jabri offers both Western readers and his own compatriots a radical new approach to Arab th

      Table of Contents

      • Introduction by Walid Hamarneh
      • Author's Introduction
      • Part One: A Different Reading of the Tradition Discourse
        • Chapter I: The Present Shortcomings
        • Chapter II: For a Scientific Critique of Arab Reason
      • Part Two: Philosophical Thinking and Ideology
        • Chapter III: Historical Dynamics of the Arab-Islamic Philosophy
        • Chapter IV: The Rise and Fall of Reason
        • Chapter V: The Andalusian Resurgence
      • Conclusion: The Future Can Only Be Averroist

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