Islam, State, and Modernity

This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to one of the most significant Arab thinkers of the late 20th century and the early 21st century: the Moroccan philosopher and social theorist Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. With his intellectual and political engagement, al-Jabri has influenced the development of a modern reading of the Islamic tradition in the broad Arab-Islamic world and has been, in recent years, subject to an increasing interest among Muslims and non-Muslim scholars, social activists and lay men. The contributors to this volume read al-Jabri with reference to prominent past Arab-Muslim scholars, such as Ibn Rushd, al-Ghazali, al-Shatibi, and Ibn Khaldun, as well as contemporary Arab philosophers, like Hassan Hanafi, Abdellah Laroui, George Tarabishi, Taha Abderrahmane; they engage with various aspects of his intellectual project, and trace his influence in non-Arab-Islamic lands, like Indonesia, as well. His analysis of Arab thought since the 1970s as a harbinger analysis of the ongoing Arab Spring uprising remains relevant for today's political challenges in the region.

Offers the first comprehensive introduction to Moroccan philosopher and social theorist Mohammed al-Jabri and his relevance to the "Arab Spring" Creatively engages with top critical minds in Arab-Islamic scholarship on the future of the State in the Arab-Islamic World Discusses today's political challenges in the region and new intellectual trajectories Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Zaid Eyadat is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jordan.
**Francesca M. Corrao is Professor of Arab-Islamic Studies at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy.
**Mohammed Hashas is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy.

Inhalt

1. Introduction. Critique and Change: al-Jabri in Contemporary Arab Thought .- 2. Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and Ibn Khaldun: A Path to Modernity .- 3. The Critique of Arab Reason between al-Jabri and Tarabishi .- 4. The Arab Reader by al-Jabri: The Question of Disjunction and Rejunction .- 5. An Intellectual between the Maghreb and the Mashreq: al-Jabri and the Location of Thought .- 6. Al-Jabri and His Introduction to the Qur'n .- 7. The International Becoming of an Arab Philosopher: An Analysis of the non-Reception of Mohammed Abed al-Jabri in Euro-American Scholarship .- 8. Al-Jabri in Indonesia: Critique of Arab Reason Travels to the Lands Below the Winds .- 9. State and Religion in al-Jabri's Political Thought .- 10. Dare to be Wise! On the Reception of al-Jabri Post-2011 .- 11. Reflections on Education and Culture in al-Jabri's Thought .- 12. A Critique of al-Jabri's Arab Ethical Reason .- 13. The Ethical Dialectic in al-Jabri's Critique of Arab Reason .- 14. The Arab Possible State: from al-Tahtawi to al-Jabri.