Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (Arabic: محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010 Rabat) was one of the most 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]

Awards

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

Bibliography

Arabic

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

Translations

English

• al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (January 1999). Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique. Translated by Abbassi, Aziz. Center for Middle Eastern Studies; University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70480-1.
• al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (2008). Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1845117492.
• al-Jabri, Muhammad Abed (2010). The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 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 ISBN 978-3-9809000-8-9

References

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. ISBN 0-7453-2169-0 ISBN 0-7453-2170-4 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)
• Nicola Missaglia, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri's New Averroism"