Mohammed Abed Al Jabri
Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (also Al-Jabri ; Arabic محمد عابد الجابري Muhammad Abid al-Jabri ; born December 27, 1935 in Figuig , French North Africa ; died May 3, 2010 in Casablanca ) was a Moroccan philosopher and literary scholar .
Life
After finishing the Koran school , Al Jabri completed an apprenticeship as a tailor and became a primary school teacher. In the 1950s he took part in the socialist organization USFP . From 1958 he studied philosophy in Damascus . In 1967 he completed his studies in philosophy at the Mohammed V University in Rabat . His doctoral thesis deals with the Arab thinker Ibn Chaldūn (1332–1406). Until 2002 he taught epistemology and philosophy at the University of Rabat . Al Jabri's main interest was the enlightened philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) and a revival of Islamic Averroism . His main work is the four-volume Naqd al-aql al-arabi ( Critique of Arab Reason ), which was published between 1984 and 2001.
Al-Jabri taught philosophy at the Mohammed V University in Rabat . In December 2008 he received the Ibn Rushd Foundation's Prize for Free Thinking in Karlsruhe .
Works
Writings in German and French translation:
- Critique de la raison arabe (Naqd al-aql al-arabi), 4 vols. (1984-2001)
- Critique of Arab Reason. The introduction . Translated by Vincent von Wroblevsky and Sarah Dornhof. Berlin: Perlen-Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-9809000-8-9 (French translation under the title Introduction à la critique de la raison arabe , 1994)
- El legado filosófico árabe: Alfarabi, Avicena, Avempace, Averroes, Abenjaldún: lecturas contemporáneas . Translation: Manuel C. Feria García. Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2001.
- Crítica de la razón arabe: nueva visión sobre el legado filosófico andalusí . Translation: Ahmed Mahfoud. Barcelona: Icaria, 2001.
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Ábed Yabri, Mohamed in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- CV- Mohammed Abed al-Jabri . Website of the Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought , October 19, 2008 (English; pdf; 79 kB)
- Sonja Hegasy : Portrait of the Philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri: Critique of Arab Reason . Qantara.de , 2009, published January 17, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bassam Tibi : The Enlightened. Long before Kant, a Muslim philosopher called for the primacy of reason , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 9, 2016, p. 12
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↑ Stefan Weidner: Departure into Reason - Debates on Islam and the Islamic World between 9/11 and the Arab Revolutions . IHW Dietz Verlag, Bonn, 2011, pp. 126–128.
Jaafar Aksikas: Arab Modernities - Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-colonial Arab World . Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2009, pp. 61-94.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jabri, Mohammed Abed Al |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan philosopher and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Figuig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2010 |
| Place of death | Casablanca |