Islam, State, and Modernity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction—Critique and Change: Al-Jabri in Contemporary Arab Thought

   • Mohammed Hashas, Zaid Eyadat, Francesca M. Corrao

   Pages 1-21

3. Al-Jabri’s Reconstruction of Arab-Islamic Thought

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and Ibn Khaldun: A Path to Modernity

      • Massimo Campanini

      Pages 25-40

   3. The Critique of Arab Reason Between al-Jabri and Tarabishi

      • Abdul Karim Barghouti, Jamal Daher, Nadim Mseis

      Pages 41-64

   4. The Arab Reader by al-Jabri: The Question of Disjunction and Rejunction

      • Kinira Monica Carbone

      Pages 65-78

   5. An Intellectual Between the Maghreb and the Mashreq: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Location of Thought

      • Idriss Jebari

      Pages 79-108

   6. Al-Jabri and His Introduction to the Qur’ān

      • Mariangela Laviano

      Pages 109-125

   7. The International Becoming of an Arab Philosopher: An Analysis of the Non-reception of Mohammed Abed al-Jabri in Euro-American Scholarship

      • Mohamed Amine Brahimi

      Pages 127-148

   8. Al-Jabri in Indonesia: The Critique of Arab Reason Travels to the Lands Below the Winds

      • Carool Kersten

      Pages 149-167

4. Politics, Ethics, and the Future of the State in the Arab World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. State and Religion in al-Jabri’s Political Thought

      • Mohsine El Ahmadi

      Pages 171-182

   3. “Dare to be Wise!” On the Reception of al-Jabri Post-2011

      • Sonja Hegasy

      Pages 183-204

   4. Reflections on Education and Culture in al-Jabri’s Thought

      • Francesca M. Corrao

      Pages 205-218

   5. A Critique of al-Jabri’s Arab Ethical Reason

      • Zaid Eyadat, Hanadi Riyad

      Pages 219-247

   6. The Ethical Dialectic in al-Jabri’s “Critique of Arab Reason”

      • Harald Viersen

      Pages 249-269

   7. The Arab Possible State: From al-Tahtawi to al-Jabri

      • Mohammed Hashas

      Pages 271-302

5. Back Matter

   Pages 303-320

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This 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.

• Arab-Islamic Political Thought
• Arab-Islamic Ethical Thought
• political philosophy
• philosophy of religion
• Arab Renewal
• religion and society

“Islam, State and Modernity is a significant contribution to exploring the various aspects of al-Jabri’s thought, philosophy, and legacy for a wider readership, on topics ranging from Arab–Islamic thought to the state, politics, ethics, education, and the Qur’an phenomenon. It will prove helpful to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines, ranging from Middle East Studies to Philosophy.” (Tauseef Ahmad Parray, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences AJISS, Vol. 35 (3), 2018) “Al-Jabri left no one indifferent; intellectuals throughout the Arab world were passionately either for or against him. His oeuvre offers several original insights which are just beginning to be assessed with some degree of objectivity. The present volume is the first publication in English to offer such assessments in a number of articles by specialists focusing on various aspects of one of the most original and multifaceted Arab philosopher and intellectual of our time.” (Abdou Filali-Ansary, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Aga Khan University, London, UK)

“This book celebrates a remarkable, but insufficiently recognized Muslim thinker. All those who claim that Islam lacks both reason and philosophy are refuted by al-Jabri's work. Rooted in the great Islamic philosophical tradition, al-Jabri also is a herald of democratic renewal in our time.” (Fred R. Dallmayr, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA)

 “These informative and thoughtful articles offer a critical assessment of a most influential and controversial Arab thinker of the late 20th century. Praised by some for his historicist, archaeological analysis of Arab intellectual legacy, and appreciated by others for his work toward an immanent Arab rationality, al-Jabiri was also criticized for his essentialist and reductionist conclusions. A timely and valuable contribution to a necessary discussion of his work.” (Elizabeth S. Kassab, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)

• University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

  Zaid Eyadat

• LUISS Guido Carli, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  Francesca M. Corrao, Mohammed Hashas

Zaid Eyadat is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jordan.


Francesca M. Corrao is Professor of Arab-Islamic Studies at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy.


Mohammed Hashas is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy.
 

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