Moroccan philosopher

Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (Arabic: محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010 Rabat) was one of the most 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. 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.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Awards
• 3 Bibliography
  • 3.1 Arabic
  • 3.2 Translations
    • 3.2.1 English
    • 3.2.2 French
    • 3.2.3 German
• 4 References
• 5 Further reading
• 6 External links

Biography

Jabri was born on 27 December 1935 in Figuig, Morocco. 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.

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. Translated by Abb*i, 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: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 *abiya 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 P*é (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

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)
• Nicola Missaglia, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri's New Averroism"