Biography:Mohammed Abed al-Jabri

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Mohammad Abed al-Jabri
BornDecember 27, 1935
Figuig, Morocco
DiedMay 3, 2010
Casablanca, Morocco
NationalityMoroccan
Alma materUniversity of Mohammad V
Notable work
The critique of the Arab Mind
AwardsIbn Rushd Prize
RegionArab world
Main interests
Arab reason, Ibn Khaldun

Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (Arabic: محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010 Rabat) was a Moroccan critic and professor of philosophy and Islamic thought in Mohammed V University in Rabat. He was also an expert in Arabic and Arabic literature. He is considered to have been one of the major intellectual figures in the contemporary Arab world.[1] He is also known for his academic project "The critique of the Arab Mind". 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]

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). Center for Arab Unity Studies. 
  • Al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (1998). Ibn Rushd: Sīra wa-Fikr (ابن رشد: سيرة وفكر). Center for Arab Unity Studies. 

Translations

English

  • al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (January 1999). Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique. 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 1845117492. 
  • 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 1848850611. 

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

  1. ↑ "The University of Texas Press" (in en). http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/aljarp.html. 
  2. ↑ Sonja Hegasy, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Pioneering Figure in a New Arab Enlightenment" at Qantara.de, 06 May 2010 [1]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri". Ibn Rushd Organization. http://ibn-rushd.org/pages/int/Awards/2008/documents/cv-en.html. Retrieved 10 October 2014. 

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