Mohammed Abed al-Jabri 1935 – 2010
Mohammed Abed al-Jabri (1935 – 2010) was a Moroccan philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Islamic Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy.
Mohammed Abed al-Jabri was a Moroccan philosopher, long associated with Mohammed V University in Rabat, and one of the most influential Arab thinkers of the late twentieth century. His four-volume Critique of Arab Reason offered a sustained genealogy of the structures of classical Arab-Islamic thought, distinguishing the bayan tradition of Arabic linguistic science, the irfan tradition of Sufi gnosis, and the burhan tradition of Greek-influenced demonstrative philosophy, and called for an Arab modernity rooted in the rationalist legacy of Andalusian Averroism. His Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought made the case for a democratic and pluralist reading of the classical Islamic political tradition.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Moroccan
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Islamic Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Mohammed Abed al-Jabri:
“Arab reason has three faces: the bayan of language, the irfan of mysticism, and the burhan of demonstration.”
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Attributed to Mohammed Abed al-Jabri:
“Modernity for the Arabs begins not in imitation of Europe, but in the Andalusian rationalism of Averroes.”
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Attributed to Mohammed Abed al-Jabri:
“A tradition is alive only when its rationalism is recovered against its own dogmatism.”
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Attributed to Mohammed Abed al-Jabri:
“Democracy is not foreign to the Islamic political imagination; it is one of its possibilities.”
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“The critique of reason is the only path to the renewal of culture.”
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- Mohammed Abed al-Jabri was a Moroccan philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Mohammed Abed al-Jabri was a Moroccan philosopher, long associated with Mohammed V University in Rabat, and one of the most influential Arab thinkers of the late twentieth century.
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