Arab-Islamic Philosophy. A Contemporary Critique, by Muḥammad ʻĀbid Jābirī

Muḥammad ʻĀbid Jābirī, Arab-Islamic Philosophy. A Contemporary Critique, translated from the French by Aziz Abbassi, The University of Texas of Austin, 1999. The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and a fundamentalism that would reconstruc..