Hassan Hanafi Quotes on Politics
Hassan Hanafi was an Egyptian philosopher and Islamic intellectual of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, professor of philosophy at Cairo University and one of the leading figures of the late twentieth-century Arab philosophical revival. This page collects quotes attributed to Hassan Hanafi on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hassan Hanafi:
“Occidentalism is the discipline of studying the West as the West has long studied us.”
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Attributed to Hassan Hanafi:
“The Arab philosophical task is liberation; the rest is commentary.”
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Attributed to Hassan Hanafi:
“Theology that does not speak to oppression is theology that has lost its calling.”
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Attributed to Hassan Hanafi:
“Every text is a position taken in a struggle; the philosopher's first task is to recognize which struggle his text is taking part in.”