Mohammed Abed al-Jabri

Dzieła

• 1984Kształtowanie się rozumu arabskiego

  Pierwszy tom Krytyki rozumu arabskiego: jak w klasycznym islamie ukształtowały się trzy rywalizujące systemy wiedzy – bayan, irfan i burhan.

Stanowisko

Al-Jabri’s four-volume Critique of Arab Reason asked why Arab thought had stagnated. He distinguished three epistemic systems formed in classical Islam: bayan, the explication of texts in grammar, law and theology; irfan, gnosis claiming direct illumination, as in Sufism, Ismailism and – he argued – Avicenna’s “Oriental philosophy”; and burhan, Aristotelian demonstration. The way forward lay with the rationalism of the Muslim West – Ibn Hazm, Averroes, Ibn Khaldun – rather than with the gnostic East. Arabs should appropriate their heritage critically, neither rejecting nor venerating it. His sharp East–West contrast and verdict on Avicenna drew much criticism, notably in George Tarabishi’s multi-volume “Critique of the Critique of Arab Reason”.

Życie i kontekst

Mohammed Abed al-Jabri was born in 1935 (some sources say 1936) in Figuig in eastern Morocco. Active in the nationalist left (UNFP, later USFP), he worked as teacher and journalist and was briefly jailed in the 1960s. He studied philosophy in Damascus and Rabat, earned a doctorate in 1970 with a study of Ibn Khaldun, and taught for decades at Rabat’s Mohammed V University. He died in Casablanca in 2010.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• We and the Heritage (Nahnu wa-l-turath, 1980)
• The Formation of Arab Reason (Takwin al-ʿaql al-ʿarabi, 1984)
• The Structure of Arab Reason (Bunyat al-ʿaql al-ʿarabi, 1986)
• Arab Political Reason (al-ʿAql al-siyasi al-ʿarabi, 1990)

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