Description
| Product ID: | 9780292704800 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | CMES Middle East Monograph Series |
| Title: | Arab-Islamic Philosophy |
| Subtitle: | A Contemporary Critique |
| Authors: | Author: Mohammed ‘Abed al-Jabri, Aziz Abbassi |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Subjects: | Islamic and Arab philosophy, Islamic & Arabic philosophy |
| Description: | A radical new approach to Arab thought, one that finds in the past the roots of an open, critical rationalism. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Texas Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Texas Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-07-01 |
