Contemporary Moroccan Thought
On Philosophy, Theology, Society, and Culture
Published on 14. November 2024
Book
Hardback
830 pages
978-90-04-51952-7 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary Moroccan Thought offers a new and broad coverage of the intellectual dynamics and scholarly output of what is presented here as the Rabat School since the 1950s. Geographically situated at the western edge of the classical Arab-Islamic world, Moroccan scholarship has made a belated yet vigorous comeback on the modern Arab intellectual scene, attracting wider reception beyond the Arabic-speaking world, through influential contributions in philosophical, theological, social and cultural studies.
This volume sets a new standard in the study of Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern societies, and will undoubtedly remain an important scholarly reference for generations to come.
Contributors: Deina Abdelkader, Nayla Abi Nader, Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Salah Basalamah, Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Sara Borrillo, Ibrahim Bouhaouliane, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen, Driss El Ghazouani, Brahim El Guabli, Abdennabi El Harri, Amin El-Yousfi, Francesca Forte, Fatma Gargouri, Wael Hallaq, Mohammed Hashas, Alma Rachel Heckman, Aziz Hlaoua, Abdellatif Kidai, Markus Kneer, Mohamed Lamallam, Khalid Lyamlahy, Juan A. Macias-Amoretti, Djelloul Magoura, Mohammed K. B. Rhazzali, Raja Rhouni, Nils Riecken, Fatima Sadiqi, Hamza Salih, Ari Schriber, Simone Sibilio, and Abdessalam Tawil.
This volume sets a new standard in the study of Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern societies, and will undoubtedly remain an important scholarly reference for generations to come.
Contributors: Deina Abdelkader, Nayla Abi Nader, Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Salah Basalamah, Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Sara Borrillo, Ibrahim Bouhaouliane, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen, Driss El Ghazouani, Brahim El Guabli, Abdennabi El Harri, Amin El-Yousfi, Francesca Forte, Fatma Gargouri, Wael Hallaq, Mohammed Hashas, Alma Rachel Heckman, Aziz Hlaoua, Abdellatif Kidai, Markus Kneer, Mohamed Lamallam, Khalid Lyamlahy, Juan A. Macias-Amoretti, Djelloul Magoura, Mohammed K. B. Rhazzali, Raja Rhouni, Nils Riecken, Fatima Sadiqi, Hamza Salih, Ari Schriber, Simone Sibilio, and Abdessalam Tawil.
Reviews / Votes
"Contemporary Moroccan Thought offers a breathtakingly interdisciplinary survey of a rich debate on philosophy, theology, society, politics and culture. Mohammed Hashas' intriguing preface and introduction make a strong case for considering this tradition in a national context, with an innovative typology of 'near-far-other,' which invites comparative work and provides myriad inroads for scholars of modern Morocco." - Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, author of Democracy and Civil Society in Arab Political Thought"This is an invaluable work that is appearing at the right time. Hashas' long, learned introduction is especially useful as a guide to the volume as a whole. With his essay and the rest of the studies the work is almost encyclopaedic in its coverage and will be mined by advanced students and seasoned scholars from a wide range of humanities disciplines for many years for insights on the whole atmosphere of thought in the Maghrib, the approaches of specific Maghribi thinkers, and details of key moments in Moroccan intellectual history. A necessary work in the collection of any researcher into the intellectual history of the Maghribi and Islamic world." - Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town, author of Language, Identity, Modernity: The Arabic Study Circle of Durban
"This is a valuable and much needed addition to the field of contemporary Arab intellectual history. Hashas has put together first-rate essays on major and diverse figures of contemporary Moroccan thought. Together, they invite the reader to explore the wide range of themes and disciplines that Moroccan thinkers have been delving into and also to critically assess the edge that they might represent in the larger regional context." - Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
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Language
Other
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
1329 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51952-7 (9789004519527)
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Mohammed Hashas [?a??a?] (PhD 2013) is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Humanities and Society at Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy. His publications include Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm (2020), The Idea of European Islam (2019), and Islam, State and Modernity (2018).
Content
Foreword: Writing as Critical Intellectual Gratitude
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Style
Notes on Contributors
1 Rabat School of Thought: Tradition, Modernity, and Critique from the Edge
?Mohammed Hashas
Part 1: Projects in Philosophy and Philosophical Thought
2 Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi's 'Realistic Personalism': The Multidimensionality of the Human Person in a Muslim Context
?Markus Kneer
3 Abdallah Laroui's Situated Universalist Critique of Western Modernity
?Nils Riecken
4 Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Question of Method in Reading the Tradition
?Nayla Abi Nader
5 Ali Oumlil's Reform Agenda: Historical Consciousness, Tradition, and Modernity
?Abdessalam Tawil
6 Abderrahmane Taha's Translation of Modernity into an Islamic Paradigm: Towards an Ethical Project of Liberation
?Salah Basalamah
7 Abdelkebir Khatibi: Epistemic Translation as a Mode of Nomadic Thinking
?Khalid Lyamlahy
8 Abdessalam Benabdelali's Critical Thought: Towards a Philosophical Canon in Morocco
?Juan A. Macias-Amoretti
9 Ibn Rushd in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
?Abdennebi El Harri
10 Ibn Khaldun in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
?Francesca Forte
11 The Particular Versus the Universal in Contemporary Arabic Philosophy: Abderrahmane Taha and Nassif Nassar
?Djelloul Magoura
Part 2: Projects in Theology, Theological Politics, and Sufism
12 Allal al-Fassi: Visions of Shari?a in Post-Colonial Moroccan State Law
?Ari Schriber
13 Mohamed Hassan al-Ouazzani and the Centrality of the Political: Liberalism Delayed
?Hamza Salih
14 Abdessalam Yassine: On Sovereignty and the Just Ruler
?Deina Abdelkader
15 Farid al-Ansari: From the Islamist Movement's 'Political Inflation' to the Aesthetics of Qur'an
?Amin El-Yousfi
16 Ahmed Al-Raissouni's Minimalist Political Theory: Freedom at the Nexus of Human Fi?ra, Public Morality, and State Power
?Mohamed Lamallam
17 Ahmed El Khamlichi's Views for Islamic Juridical Renewal
?Ibrahim Bouhaouliane
18 Fatema Mernissi, the Demon of Coloniality and Decolonial Exorcisms
?Raja Rhouni
19 Asma Lamrabet's Theology: Navigating Islam, Gender Equality and Decolonial Thought
?Sara Borrillo
20 The Gender Debate in Contemporary Morocco and the Formation of the 'Middle'
?Fatima Sadiqi
21 The Butshishiyya Sufi Order: From Retreat to Engagement with the Political
?Aziz Hlaoua
Part 3: Projects in the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
22 Mahdi Elmandjra's Futurology and Arab Issues
?Fatma Gargouri Bahloul
23 Abdellah Hammoudi: For an Arab Anthropology
?Kholoud Al-Ajarma
24 Sociology Studies in Morocco: Trajectories, Actors, and Challenges
?Abdellatif Kidai, Driss El Ghazouani, and Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali
25 Mohammed Bennis's Thought and Poetics: On Modernity, Writing, and Space
?Simone Sibilio
26 Abdelfattah Kilito: On the Merits of Bilingualism and the Persistence of Colonial Linguistic Paradigms
?Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
27 Abdellatif Laabi and the Decolonial Roar: "All Silence Is Death by Default"
?Tina Dransfeldt Christensen
28 Dreams and Disillusion: Moroccan Jewish Leftists and the Struggle for Democracy
?Alma Rachel Heckman
29 Discursive and Theoretical Practices in Moroccan Cultural Journals during the "Years of Lead" (1956-1999)
?Brahim El Guabli
30 Afterword: Reforming Modernity in Contemporary Moroccan Philosophy - A Conversation
?Wael Hallaq
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Style
Notes on Contributors
1 Rabat School of Thought: Tradition, Modernity, and Critique from the Edge
?Mohammed Hashas
Part 1: Projects in Philosophy and Philosophical Thought
2 Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi's 'Realistic Personalism': The Multidimensionality of the Human Person in a Muslim Context
?Markus Kneer
3 Abdallah Laroui's Situated Universalist Critique of Western Modernity
?Nils Riecken
4 Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Question of Method in Reading the Tradition
?Nayla Abi Nader
5 Ali Oumlil's Reform Agenda: Historical Consciousness, Tradition, and Modernity
?Abdessalam Tawil
6 Abderrahmane Taha's Translation of Modernity into an Islamic Paradigm: Towards an Ethical Project of Liberation
?Salah Basalamah
7 Abdelkebir Khatibi: Epistemic Translation as a Mode of Nomadic Thinking
?Khalid Lyamlahy
8 Abdessalam Benabdelali's Critical Thought: Towards a Philosophical Canon in Morocco
?Juan A. Macias-Amoretti
9 Ibn Rushd in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
?Abdennebi El Harri
10 Ibn Khaldun in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
?Francesca Forte
11 The Particular Versus the Universal in Contemporary Arabic Philosophy: Abderrahmane Taha and Nassif Nassar
?Djelloul Magoura
Part 2: Projects in Theology, Theological Politics, and Sufism
12 Allal al-Fassi: Visions of Shari?a in Post-Colonial Moroccan State Law
?Ari Schriber
13 Mohamed Hassan al-Ouazzani and the Centrality of the Political: Liberalism Delayed
?Hamza Salih
14 Abdessalam Yassine: On Sovereignty and the Just Ruler
?Deina Abdelkader
15 Farid al-Ansari: From the Islamist Movement's 'Political Inflation' to the Aesthetics of Qur'an
?Amin El-Yousfi
16 Ahmed Al-Raissouni's Minimalist Political Theory: Freedom at the Nexus of Human Fi?ra, Public Morality, and State Power
?Mohamed Lamallam
17 Ahmed El Khamlichi's Views for Islamic Juridical Renewal
?Ibrahim Bouhaouliane
18 Fatema Mernissi, the Demon of Coloniality and Decolonial Exorcisms
?Raja Rhouni
19 Asma Lamrabet's Theology: Navigating Islam, Gender Equality and Decolonial Thought
?Sara Borrillo
20 The Gender Debate in Contemporary Morocco and the Formation of the 'Middle'
?Fatima Sadiqi
21 The Butshishiyya Sufi Order: From Retreat to Engagement with the Political
?Aziz Hlaoua
Part 3: Projects in the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
22 Mahdi Elmandjra's Futurology and Arab Issues
?Fatma Gargouri Bahloul
23 Abdellah Hammoudi: For an Arab Anthropology
?Kholoud Al-Ajarma
24 Sociology Studies in Morocco: Trajectories, Actors, and Challenges
?Abdellatif Kidai, Driss El Ghazouani, and Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali
25 Mohammed Bennis's Thought and Poetics: On Modernity, Writing, and Space
?Simone Sibilio
26 Abdelfattah Kilito: On the Merits of Bilingualism and the Persistence of Colonial Linguistic Paradigms
?Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
27 Abdellatif Laabi and the Decolonial Roar: "All Silence Is Death by Default"
?Tina Dransfeldt Christensen
28 Dreams and Disillusion: Moroccan Jewish Leftists and the Struggle for Democracy
?Alma Rachel Heckman
29 Discursive and Theoretical Practices in Moroccan Cultural Journals during the "Years of Lead" (1956-1999)
?Brahim El Guabli
30 Afterword: Reforming Modernity in Contemporary Moroccan Philosophy - A Conversation
?Wael Hallaq
Index