{"product_id":"arab-islamic-philosophy-a-contemporary-critique-paperback-softback-9780292704800","title":"Arab-Islamic Philosophy; A Contemporary Critique (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292704800","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArab-Islamic Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Contemporary Critique\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMohammed ‘Abed al-Jabri (Author), Aziz Abbassi (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292704800\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e152 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and a fundamentalism that would reconstruct the present in the image of an idealized past. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Both past and present intellectual currents are examined. Al-Jabri first questions the current philosophical positions of the liberals, the Marxists, and the fundamentalists. Then he turns to history, exploring Arab philosophy in the tenth and twelfth centuries, a time of political and ideological struggle. In the writings of Ibn Hazm and AverroËs, he identifies the beginnings of Arab rationalism, a rationalism he traces through the innovative fourteenth–century work of Ibn Khaldun. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Al-Jabri offers both Western readers and his own compatriots a radical new approach to Arab thought, one that finds in the past the roots of an open, critical rationalism which he sees as emerging in the Arab world today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction by Walid Hamarneh \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Author's Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part One: A Different Reading of the Tradition Discourse \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter I: The Present Shortcomings \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter II: For a Scientific Critique of Arab Reason \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Two: Philosophical Thinking and Ideology \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter III: Historical Dynamics of the Arab-Islamic Philosophy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter IV: The Rise and Fall of Reason \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter V: The Andalusian Resurgence \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion: The Future Can Only Be Averroist \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670833426712,"sku":"9780292704800","price":14.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/arab-islamic-philosophy-a-contemporary-critique-paperback-softback-9780292704800","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}