Arab-Islamic Philosophy - A Contemporary CritiquePaperback
Arab-Islamic Philosophy - A Contemporary CritiquePaperback The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the…
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Arab-Islamic Philosophy - A Contemporary CritiquePaperback
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 first questions the current philosophical positions of the liberals, the Marxists, and the fundamentalists. 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.
In the writings of Ibn Hazm and Averroes, he identifies the beginnings of Arab rationalism, a rationalism he traces through the innovative fourteenth-century work of Ibn Khaldun. Then he turns to history, exploring Arab philosophy in the tenth and twelfth centuries, a time of political and ideological struggle.