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Mohammed Allal Sinaceur
محمد علال سينشر
Minister of Cultural Affairs
In office
August 11, 1992 (1992-08-11) – January 31, 1995 (1995-01-31)
Monarch Hassan II
Prime Minister Mohammed Karim Lamrani
Abdellatif Filali
Preceded by Mohamed Benaïssa
Succeeded by Abdellah Azmani
Personal details
Born 1941
Oujda (  Morocco)
OccupationPolitician, Writer, Philosopher

Mohammed Allal Sinaceur (born 1941) is a Moroccan philosopher, politician and writer. He was the Moroccan Minister of Cultural Affairs.

Biography

Sinaceur was born in Oujda, Morocco in 1941. [1] He is a member of a well connected Moroccan family. His brother Mohamed Habib Sinaceur, a politician, died in 2000. One of his brothers is a General and another, Jamal Eddine Sinaceur, is a diplomat. He was the Moroccan Minister for Cultural Affairs in 1994. [2]

He writes on philosophy and Islamic issues for UNESCO and some of his works have been translated into over 30 languages. He is called to expert meetings on Education. [3]

Works

He has been writing since at least 1977. [4]

His works include [5]

  • Aristote aujourd'hui : études réunies ... à l'occasion du 2300e anniversaire de la mort du philosophe, 1988 in French
  • Cours de philosophie positive, with Auguste Comte, Ed, 1998 in French
  • The Hassan II mosque, with Philippe Ploqui

References

  1. ^ Librairie dialogues.fr, Mohammed Allal Sinaceur [1] (retrieved 2012)
  2. ^ Interview with Mr Mohammed Allal Sinaceur, Minister of Cultural Affairs: M Sinaceur: "We lack creators", L'Economiste, In French, 17 November 1994
  3. ^ The Philosophical dimension of current problems in regard to science and technology, Meeting of Experts on Philosophical Investigation of the Conditions for Endogenous Development of Science and Technology; Kathmandu; 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD); Vienna; November 1979
  4. ^ Mohanned Allal Sinaceur, UNESDOC, UNESCO, accessed October 28, 2012
  5. ^ Sinaceur, Allal[ permanent dead link], WorldCat, accessed 28 October 2012