Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (
Arabic: محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010
Rabat) was one of the most known Moroccan and Arab philosophers; he taught
philosophy, Arab philosophy, and
Islamic thought in
Mohammed V University in
Rabat from the late 1960s until his retirement. He is considered one of the major philosophers and intellectual figures in the modern and contemporary Arab world.[1] He is known for his academic project "Critique of Arab Reason", published in four volumes between the 1980s and 2000s. He published several influential books on the Arab philosophical tradition.[2]
Biography
Jabri was born on 27 December 1935 in
Figuig,
Morocco.[3] he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the
University of Mohammed V in 1967.[3] He also obtained a PhD in philosophy from the same university in 1970.[3]
Al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (1995). Mas'alat al-Huwiyya: al-ʿUrūba wa-al-Islām wa-al-Gharb (مسألة الهوية: العروبة والإسلام والغرب) [The Issue of Identity: Arabism, Islam and the West]. Center for Arab Unity Studies.
Al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (1998). Ibn Rushd: Sīra wa-Fikr (ابن رشد: سيرة وفكر) [Ibn Rushd: life and thought]. Center for Arab Unity Studies.
Translations
English
al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (January 1999). Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique. Translated by Abbassi, Aziz. Center for Middle Eastern Studies; University of Texas Press.
ISBN0-292-70480-1.
al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (2008). Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought. I. B. Tauris.
ISBN1845117492.
al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (2010). The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World. I. B. Tauris.
ISBN1848850611.
French
La Pensée de Ibn Khaldoun: la Assabiya et l'État. Grandes lignes d'une théorie Khaldounienne de l'histoire musulmane. Paris: Édima, 1971.
Pour une Vision Progressiste de nos Difficultés Intellectuelles et Éducatives. Paris: Édima, 1977.
Nous et Notre Passé (Al-Marqaz al-taqafi al-arabi). Lecture contemporaine de notre patrimoine philosophique, 1980.
Critique de la Raison Arabe - 3 volumes, Beyrouth, 1982.
German
Kritik der arabischen Vernunft, Naqd al-'aql al-'arabi, Die Einführung, Perlen Verlag, Berlin 2009
ISBN978-3-9809000-8-9
Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi: Towards a Critical Arab Reason - the Contributions of Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. London, Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2004.
ISBN0-7453-2169-0ISBN0-7453-2170-4 PP. 256–278.
Zaid Eyadat, Francesca M. Corrao, and Mohammed Hashas, eds. Islam, State, and Modernity: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) XXIII, 320 p.
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