{"product_id":"arabislamic-philosophy","title":"Arabislamic Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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 reconstruct the present in the image of an idealized past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Both past and present intellectual currents are examined. Al-Jabri first questions the current philosophical positions of the liberals, the Marxists, and the fundamentalists. Then he turns to history, exploring Arab philosophy in the tenth and twelfth centuries, a time of political and ideological struggle. In the writings of Ibn Hazm and Averroës, he identifies the beginnings of Arab rationalism, a rationalism he traces through the innovative fourteenth–century work of Ibn Khaldun. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Al-Jabri offers both Western readers and his own compatriots a radical new approach to Arab thought, one that finds in the past the roots of an open, critical rationalism which he sees as emerging in the Arab world today. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319238041982,"sku":"NW9780292704800","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780292704800.jpg?v=1778727326","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/arabislamic-philosophy","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}