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Arab-Islamic Philosophy
- A Contemporary Critique
Engelsk Paperback
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- A Contemporary Critique
Engelsk Paperback

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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 thought, one that finds in the past the roots of an open, critical rationalism which he sees as emerging in the Arab world today.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
152
ISBN-13:
9780292704800
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0292704801
Udg. Dato:
1 jul 1999
Længde:
9mm
Bredde:
142mm
Højde:
218mm
Forlag:
University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato:
1 jul 1999
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