Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
Mohammad Abed al-Jabri | |
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| Born | December 27, 1935 |
| Died | May 3, 2010 |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Awards | Ibn Rushd Prize |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Mohammad V |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Arab world |
| Main interests | Arab reason, Ibn Khaldun |
| Notable works | The critique of the Arab Mind |
| Moroccan literature |
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| Moroccan writers |
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Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (Arabic: محمد عابد الجابري, romanized: Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābirī; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010) was one of the best 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 to a middle-class family of Berber origin.[3][4][5] He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Mohammed V in 1967. He also obtained a PhD in philosophy from the same university in 1970.[5][6] His master's thesis was on the philosophy of history in Ibn Khaldun and his doctoral dissertation was also on Ibn Khaldun.[3] He died in Casablanca on 3 May 2010.[7]
Awards
- The Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought for the year 2008 in Berlin.
Bibliography
Arabic
- 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. ISBN 0-292-70480-1.
- al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (2008). Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1845117498.
- al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (2010). The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1848850613.
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 ISBN 978-3-9809000-8-9
References
- ^ "The University of Texas Press". The University of Texas Press. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^ Sonja Hegasy, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Pioneering Figure in a New Arab Enlightenment" at Qantara.de, 06 May 2010 [1]
- ^ a b Aksikas, Jaafar (2009). Arab Modernities: Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-colonial Arab World. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 62–64. ISBN 978-1-4331-0534-0.
- ^ Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce (2011-05-01). The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States. University of Texas Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-292-74505-6.
- ^ a b Ilahiane, Hsain (2017-03-27). Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-4422-8182-0.
- ^ "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri". Ibn Rushd Organization. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). "al-Jābirī, Muḥammad ʿĀbid". Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32667. ISSN 1873-9830.
Further reading
- 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. ISBN 0-7453-2169-0 ISBN 0-7453-2170-4 PP. 256–278.
- Review of German "Introduction" of "Kritik der arabischen Vernunft" (also in German)
- Mohammed Hashas, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri: the Future of the Arab World?" Resetdoc, 27 December 2014, http://www.resetdoc.org/story/00000022474.
- 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. https://www.palgrave.com/it/book/9781349951550#aboutAuthors
External links
- Official website
- Sonja Hegasy "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri: Pioneering Figure in a New Arab Enlightenment", 2010
- Sonja Hegasy "Portrait of the Philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri Critique of Arab Reason", 2009
- M'hamed Hamrouch, Magress, obituary in French (published in Libération 04 - 05 - 2010)[2]
- Nicola Missaglia, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri's New Averroism" [3]
