Mohammed Abed Al Jabri (; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010) was one of the best known Moroccan and Arab philosophers; he taught

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, Arab philosophy, and

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in Mohammed V University in

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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. 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.

Biography

Jabri was born on 27 December 1935 in Figuig to a middle-class family of

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origin. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Mohammed V in 1967. He also obtained a PhD in philosophy from the same university in 1970. His master's thesis was on the philosophy of history in

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and his doctoral dissertation was also on Ibn Khaldun. He died in

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on 3 May 2010.

Awards

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

Bibliography

Arabic

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Translations

English

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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

References

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 - 201

*Nicola Missaglia, "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri's New Averroism

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