The talk was part of a seminar series centred on the theme of orientalism and the study of islam. Mohammed arkoun islamic culture, modernity, architecture. The relationship between islam and democracy is a hotly debated topic. Christian compassion and the islam of the common people. Mohammed arkoun, who has died aged 82, was one of the most original scholars in the field of islamic studies. At the age of nine he moved with his father to a prosperous village near oran inhabited by french settlers. Combats et propositions etudes musulmanes poche by mohammed arkoun 20050331 mohammed arkoun on. In this book, he advocates a conception of islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, sunni and shia, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. Professor mohammed arkoun, an internationally renowned scholar of islamic thought and cultures, passed away on 14 september 2010. His book is about that other islam whose spirit has inspired marvels of art, literature, philosophy, and law. French orientalism and the study of islam, professor. Mohammed arkoun is currently emeritus professor of the history of islamic thought. Annals of the american academy of political and social science, vol. Combats et propositions, humanisme et islam, mohammed arkoun, vrin.
The attack on the world twin towers and the pentagon in 2001 d. Combats pour lhumanisme en contextes islamiques, paris, 2002. Mohammed arkoun is one of the muslim worlds foremost thinkers. Professor muhammad arkoun 1928 2010, an algerianfrench thinker, defends a postmodernist position, criticizes the islamic reason as well as the eurocentric modernism, using an historical anthropological methodology, and aims.
Combats et propositions etudes musulmanes poche by mohammed arkoun 20050331. By treating islam as a religion as well as a timehonoured. Biography mohammed arkoun was born on february 1, 1928 in tourirtmimoun, in kabilia, a barber populated mountains in the east of the aljazair. He was known as an advocate of a new islamic modernism and humanism.
Mohammed arkoun, the unthought in contemporary islamic. Humanisme et islam combats et propositions mohammed arkoun. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his. Mohammed arkoun was born in 1928 in taourit mimoun in the larger kabylias of algeria, the son of a berber family. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic. Professor muhammad arkoun 1928 2010, an algerianfrench thinker, defends a postmodernist position, criticizes the islamic reason as well as the eurocentric modernism, using an historical anthropological methodology, and aims at founding the new science of applied islamics. Mohammed arkoun was an algerian scholar and thinker.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Mohammed arkoun mentions this point, he criticised the overall usage of the terms like islam, muslim and islamic cf. This video is a 60 minute recording of professor arkouns lecture delivered in 1983 on french orientalism and the study of islam at the iis. American academy of political and social science rethinking islam today authors. His shorter studies have appeared in many academicjournals and his works have been trans lated into several languages. Common questions, uncommon answers is a book on islamic philosophy by dr.
Arkouns book has been cited in a number of scholarly sources for providing a contemporary understanding of the development of islamic philosophy and its. The unthought in contemporary islamic thought by mohammed arkoun 20020301 01jan1818. Rethinking islam today by mohammed arkoun was originally published as an occasional paper. Miskawayh, philosophe et historien etudes musulmanes french edition french 2nd edition. A berber from the mountainous region of algeria, mohammed arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of islamic thought. As he began to consider how one might rethink islam in the contemporary world, his questioning. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual islamic reform.
Mohammed arkoun 19282010 was a leading scholar of islam, teaching in france. First published in english in 1965, albert memmis classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. Islam is still imagined as inferior to jewish and christian traditions, unchanging, and militant. Entretien avec mohammed arkoun, propos recueillis par hassan arfaoui, in m.
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