Sadiq Jalal al-Azm 1934 – 2016
Sadiq Jalal al-Azm (1934 – 2016) was a Syrian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Islamic Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy.
Sadiq Jalal al-Azm was a Syrian philosopher, professor at the University of Damascus and at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and one of the most uncompromising secular and rationalist voices of the late twentieth-century Arab intellectual scene. His Self-Criticism After the Defeat, written in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, mounted a sustained criticism of the religious, political, and philosophical structures of Arab society that had produced that defeat, while his Critique of Religious Thought offered a rationalist demolition of the religious assumptions that he held back the Arab intellectual project. His later defenses of Salman Rushdie and his sympathetic attention to the early Syrian uprising of 2011 made him a public symbol of secular Arab thought.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Syrian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Islamic Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Sadiq Jalal al-Azm:
“After the defeat of 1967, self-criticism is no longer optional; it is the precondition of any future.”
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Attributed to Sadiq Jalal al-Azm:
“Religious thought, when it refuses critique, becomes the prison of those it claims to liberate.”
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Attributed to Sadiq Jalal al-Azm:
“The defense of Salman Rushdie is the defense of every Muslim's right to think for themselves.”
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Attributed to Sadiq Jalal al-Azm:
“Reason is not the property of the West; it is the inheritance of every human being.”
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Attributed to Sadiq Jalal al-Azm:
“Without secular intellectual courage, the Arab world will continue to suffer the consequences of its own evasions.”
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- Sadiq Jalal al-Azm was born in 1934 and died in 2016.
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- Sadiq Jalal al-Azm was a Syrian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Sadiq Jalal al-Azm was associated with Islamic Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy.
- What was Sadiq Jalal al-Azm known for?
- Sadiq Jalal al-Azm was a Syrian philosopher, professor at the University of Damascus and at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and one of the most uncompromising secular and rationalist voices of the late twentieth-century Arab intellectual scene.
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