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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-100292704801

ISBN-139780292704800

eBay Product ID (ePID)625165

Product Key Features

Number of Pages152 Pages

Publication NameArab-Islamic Philosophy : a Contemporary Critique

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory & Surveys / General, Religious

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

AuthorMohammed 'abed Al-Jabri

Subject AreaPhilosophy

SeriesCmes Middle East Monograph Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN99-070635

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number12

Dewey Decimal181/.92

Table Of ContentIntroduction 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

SynopsisThe 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 Averroes, 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., 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., A radical new approach to Arab thought, one that finds in the past the roots of an open, critical rationalism.

LC Classification NumberB5295.J33 1999