Mohammed Abed al-Jabri explained

Mohammad Abed al-Jabri
Birth Date:	December 27, 1935
Birth Place:	Figuig, Morocco
Death Date:	May 3, 2010
Death Place:	Casablanca, Morocco
Nationality:	Moroccan
Alma Mater:	University of Mohammad V
Notable Works:	The critique of the Arab Mind
Awards:	Ibn Rushd Prize
Era:	20th-century philosophy
Region:	Arab world
Influenced:	Enrique Dussel

Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (Arabic: محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010) was one of the best known Moroccan and Arab philosophers; he taught philosophy, Arab philosophy, and Islamic thought in Mohammed V University in Rabat from the late 1960s until his retirement. He is considered one of the major philosophers and intellectual figures in the modern and contemporary Arab world.^[1] He is known for his academic project "Critique of Arab Reason", published in four volumes between the 1980s and 2000s. He published several influential books on the Arab philosophical tradition.^[2]

Biography

Jabri was born on 27 December 1935 in Figuig, Morocco.^[3] he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Mohammed V in 1967.^[3] He also obtained a PhD in philosophy from the same university in 1970.^[3] He died in Rabat.

Awards

• The Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought for the year 2008 in Berlin.

Bibliography

Arabic

• Book: Al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed. Mas'alat al-Huwiyya: al-ʿUrūba wa-al-Islām wa-al-Gharb (مسألة الهوية: العروبة والإسلام والغرب). 1995. The Issue of Identity: Arabism, Islam and the West. Center for Arab Unity Studies.
• Book: Al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed. Ibn Rushd: Sīra wa-Fikr (ابن رشد: سيرة وفكر). 1998. Ibn Rushd: life and thought. Center for Arab Unity Studies.

Translations

English

• Book: al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed. Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique. Center for Middle Eastern Studies; University of Texas Press. January 1999. 0-292-70480-1. Abbassi. Aziz.
• Book: al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed. Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought. 2008. I. B. Tauris. 1845117492.
• Book: al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed. The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World. 2010. I. B. Tauris. 1848850611.

French

• La Pensée de Ibn Khaldoun: la Assabiya et l'État. Grandes lignes d'une théorie Khaldounienne de l'histoire musulmane. Paris: Édima, 1971.
• Pour une Vision Progressiste de nos Difficultés Intellectuelles et Éducatives. Paris: Édima, 1977.
• Nous et Notre Passé (Al-Marqaz al-taqafi al-arabi). Lecture contemporaine de notre patrimoine philosophique, 1980.
• Critique de la Raison Arabe - 3 volumes, Beyrouth, 1982.

German

• Kritik der arabischen Vernunft, Naqd al-'aql al-'arabi, Die Einführung, Perlen Verlag, Berlin 2009

Further reading

• Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi: Towards a Critical Arab Reason - the Contributions of Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
• Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. London, Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2004. PP. 256–278.
• Review of German "Introduction" of "Kritik der arabischen Vernunft" (also in German)
• Mohammed Hashas, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri: the Future of the Arab World?" Resetdoc, 27 December 2014, http://www.resetdoc.org/story/00000022474.
• Zaid Eyadat, Francesca M. Corrao, and Mohammed Hashas, eds. Islam, State, and Modernity: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) XXIII, 320 p. https://www.palgrave.com/it/book/9781349951550#aboutAuthors

External links

• Official website
• Sonja Hegasy "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri: Pioneering Figure in a New Arab Enlightenment", 2010
• Sonja Hegasy "Portrait of the Philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri Critique of Arab Reason", 2009
• M'hamed Hamrouch, Magress, obituary in French (published in Libération 04 - 05 - 2010)http://www.maghress.com/fr/liberation/10916
• Nicola Missaglia, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri's New Averroism" http://www.resetdoc.org/story/00000021666

Notes and References

1. Web site: The University of Texas Press. The University of Texas Press. en. 2017-12-20.
2. Sonja Hegasy, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Pioneering Figure in a New Arab Enlightenment" at Qantara.de, 06 May 2010 http://en.qantara.de/wcsite.php?wc_c=8325
3. Web site: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. Ibn Rushd Organization. 10 October 2014.