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Louay M. Safi, Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization: Rational Idealism and the Structure of World History (London; New York: Routledge, 2022)
No full textThe review critically summarises the content of the book which aims at putting Islamic thought in global historical perspective, in the light of modern philosophy of history as well as international relations. The book argues that classical Islamic philosophy has still an important role to play in the global future human history, especially regarding the questions of ethics both in the experimental sciences and international relations
Taha Abderrahmane’s Trusteeship Paradigm: Spiritual Modernity and the Islamic Contribution to the Formation of a Renewed Universal Civilization of Ethos
No full textThis paper synthetically introduces “trusteeship paradigm” of Taha Abderrahmane (b. 1944), a leading philosopher of language, logic, ethics and metaphysics in the Arab-Islamic world. The core of his argument is that the four entities of revelation, reason, ethics and doing (or practice) are neither separable nor antagonistic to each other in the Islamic philosophy he aims at re-grounding; their centripetal force is essentially ethical. Islamic philosophy is primarily ethical. It is only this ethical force that can regenerate the politico-philosophical awakening of the Arab-Islamic world in particular, and can contribute to the formation of a pluralist civilization of ethos in general. Otherwise put, Abderrahmane envisions an ontological-epistemological revisionary revolution in the Arab-Islamic tradition to overcome what may be referred to as “classical dichotomous thought” that dominates some classical and contemporary Islamic thinking as well as much of the Greek heritage and Western modern thought. This ethical revolution is summarized in what he has developed as trusteeship paradigm (al-iʾtimāniyyah) or trusteeship critique (al-naqd al-iʾtimānī), a paradigm the heart of which is a theory of ethics that overcomes dichotomies like religion vs. politics, divine vs. secular, physical vs. metaphysical
Moroccan exceptionalism examined : constitutional insights pre- and post-2011
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The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity
No full textThis book breaks away from this clash between Islam and the West, by arguing that European Islam is possible. It analyzes the contribution that European Islam has made to the formation of an innovative Islamic theology that is deeply ethicist and modern, and it clarifies how this constructed European Islamic theology is able to contribute to the various debates that are related to secular-liberal democracies of Western Europe. Part I introduces four major projects that defend the idea of European Islam from different disciplines and perspectives: politics, political theology, jurisprudence and philosophy. Part II uses the frameworks from three major philosophers and scholars to approach the idea of European Islam in the context of secular-liberal societies: British scholar George Hourani, Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane and the American philosopher John Rawls. The book shows that the ongoing efforts of European Muslim thinkers to revisit the concept of citizenship and political community can be seen as a new kind of political theology, in opposition to radical forms of Islamic thinking in some Muslim-majority countries.
Opening a new path for examining Islamic thought "in and of" Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Islamic Studies, Islam in the West and Political Theology
On the Idea of European Islam: Voices of Perpetual Modernity
Full text linkBassam Tibi – Political Justifications for Euro-Islam. Islam’s Predicament with Modernity. Cultural Modernity for Religious Reform and Cultural Change: towards Euro –Islam. Tariq Ramadan – Theologico-Political Justifications for European Islam. Renewing the Islamic Sources of Law: from Adaptation to Transformation. European Islam within Radical Reform. Tareq Oubrou and Abdennour Bidar – Theologico-Philosophic Justifications for European Islam. Tareq Oubrou: Geotheology and the Minoriticization of Islam. Abdennour Bidar: from Self Islam to Overcoming Religion. European Islam in Context: Renewal for Perpetual Modernity. European Islam and the Islamic Tradition: Revisionist-Reformist. Conceptualizing the Idea of European Islam: Overcoming Classical.Bassam Tibi – Political Justifications for Euro-Islam. Islam’s Predicament with Modernity. Cultural Modernity for Religious Reform and Cultural Change: towards Euro –Islam. Tariq Ramadan – Theologico-Political Justifications for European Islam. Renewing the Islamic Sources of Law: from Adaptation to Transformation. European Islam within Radical Reform. Tareq Oubrou and Abdennour Bidar – Theologico-Philosophic Justifications for European Islam. Tareq Oubrou: Geotheology and the Minoriticization of Islam. Abdennour Bidar: from Self Islam to Overcoming Religion. European Islam in Context: Renewal for Perpetual Modernity. European Islam and the Islamic Tradition: Revisionist-Reformist. Conceptualizing the Idea of European Islam: Overcoming Classical.LUISS PhD Thesi
Islam, State, and Modernity: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World
No full textThis book offers the first comprehensive introduction to one of the most significant Arab thinkers of the late 20th century and the early 21st century: the Moroccan philosopher and social theorist Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. With his intellectual and political engagement, al-Jabri has influenced the development of a modern reading of the Islamic tradition in the broad Arab-Islamic world and has been, in recent years, subject to an increasing interest among Muslims and non-Muslim scholars, social activists and lay men. The contributors to this volume read al-Jabri with reference to prominent past Arab-Muslim scholars, such as Ibn Rushd, al-Ghazali, al-Shatibi, and Ibn Khaldun, as well as contemporary Arab philosophers, like Hassan Hanafi, Abdellah Laroui, George Tarabishi, Taha Abderrahmane; they engage with various aspects of his intellectual project, and trace his influence in non-Arab-Islamic lands, like Indonesia, as well. His analysis of Arab thought since the 1970s as a harbinger analysis of the ongoing “Arab Spring uprising” remains relevant for today's political challenges in the region
Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White's Open World
No full textThis work introduces Kenneth White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern interdisciplinary and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, wo-man, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. It traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories, aims, and perspectives. Geopoetics is shown here to be a cosmopolitan project for a more open and harmonious world, which buries narrow-mindedness and offers new horizons
Reading Abdennour Bidar: New Pathways for European Islamic Thought
No full textThis article introduces the work of the young French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar (b. 1971). It argues that Bidar’s work may be the first attempt that innovatively outlines a theoretical framework for European Islamic thought that is neither Eurocentric nor Islamocentric in the classical senses of the terms. Through a theosophic approach, Bidar tries to put the two worldviews together in a genuine effort of a theologian-philosopher. I divide his project into three intellectual stages which correspond to his three basic concepts: Self-Islam, Islamic Existentialism, and Overcoming Religion
Abdellatif Laâbi and the Decolonial Roar:“All Silence Is Death by Default”
No full textThe Moroccan poet, playwright, novelist, translator, and political activist Abdellatif Laâbi (b. 1942) has played an indispensable role in the formation of the postcolonial literary landscape in Morocco. He is perhaps best known as one of the founding editors of the experimental literary, artistic, and political journal Souffles (1966–72), and for the eight and a half years he spent in prison from 1972–1980 for “crimes of opinion” because of his writings and political activism. This chapter investigates Laâbi’s early works and how his conception of “terrorist literature” interconnects his poetic writing, decolonial thinking, and political engagement. The main part of the chapter analyses Laâbi’s poetry collection La Règne de barbarie (The Reign of Barbary, 1976) and how “barbary” fuelled his poetic rage. In the collection barbary is simultaneously a means to unmake language and a force that silences people. Laâbi’s poetic play with barbary functions as a subversion of Barbary as an Orientalist discourse while revealing how barbarism rules in history, culture, and politics. The chapter concludes with a focus on how bilingualism, Arabization, and translation went hand in hand in Laâbi’s decolonial thinking, and on how his engagement in translating Palestinian poetry into French was indissociable from both his “terrorist literature” and his focus on the need for Arabization in order to resist imperialism.The Moroccan poet, playwright, novelist, translator, and political activist Abdellatif Laâbi (b. 1942) has played an indispensable role in the formation of the postcolonial literary landscape in Morocco. He is perhaps best known as one of the founding editors of the experimental literary, artistic, and political journal Souffles (1966–72), and for the eight and a half years he spent in prison from 1972–1980 for “crimes of opinion” because of his writings and political activism. This chapter investigates Laâbi’s early works and how his conception of “terrorist literature” interconnects his poetic writing, decolonial thinking, and political engagement. The main part of the chapter analyses Laâbi’s poetry collection La Règne de barbarie (The Reign of Barbary, 1976) and how “barbary” fuelled his poetic rage. In the collection barbary is simultaneously a means to unmake language and a force that silences people. Laâbi’s poetic play with barbary functions as a subversion of Barbary as an Orientalist discourse while revealing how barbarism rules in history, culture, and politics. The chapter concludes with a focus on how bilingualism, Arabization, and translation went hand in hand in Laâbi’s decolonial thinking, and on how his engagement in translating Palestinian poetry into French was indissociable from both his “terrorist literature” and his focus on the need for Arabization in order to resist imperialism
Review of Abdulaziz Sachedina, Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. x + 214.
Full text linkThe book is divided into five chapters: “In Search of a Comprehensive Definition of Ethics,” “The Genesis of Moral Reasoning in Religious Ethics,” “Scriptural Sources of Ethical Methodology,” “Natural Law and Ethical Necessity,” “The Ethics of Interpretive Jurisprudence,” in addition to an intro- duction and epilogue. The main argument of the work is that “Islamic eth- ics is not only integral” to juridical methodology and social ethics but is also “a critical component of the entire religious worldview presented by the Qurʾan” (x). Sachedina proposes to see the “Islamic juridical tradition as a fundamental source for the study of Islamic ethics” (121). He believes that the core of the Qurʾānic message is individual morality, moral advancement, self-purification (tazakkī, in his words), as well as social justice and fairness (7, 8, 18, 183)
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