Philosophie in der nahöstlichen Moderne
-
Edited by:
Sarhan Dhouib
, Jan-Peter Hartung , Christoph Herzog , Anke von Kügelgen , Kata Moser and Roman Seidel -
Founded by:
Anke von Kügelgen
-
Scientific consultation:
Ahmed Attia
, Zeynep Direk , Ali Gheissari , Ahmad Madi , Mohamed Mesbahi , Anwar Moghith , Nassif Nassar and Fatih Triki
The series pnm is intended to help decenter our Islamocentric perception of the Near and Middle East. It offers a platform for philosophical thought that has been emerging since the second half of the 19th century in Alexandria, Beirut, Fez, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Calcutta, Lahore, Tehran, Tbilisi and Tunis, dealing with the challenges of "modern" sciences, technologies, values and demands and reflecting anew on religious, moral, cultural, legal, social and aesthetic traditions.
This two-volume anthology presents previously untranslated essays by twenty intellectuals dating from the second half of the 19th century to the present time, who view tolerance in different ways and do not universally place negative connotations on its negative counterpart. The commentaries analyze and explain the Arabic terms, conceptual differences, and strategies of justification.
This book throws new light on the spiritual background, the origins, and the most important characteristics of Islam, as well as on the consequences of these characteristics for the role that it plays in contemporary society and politics. It makes an influential contribution to the current debate on slam. Its author, the Syrian philosopher Nayef Ballouz (1934–1998), was one of the most significant Arabic thinkers of the late twentieth century.
This monograph presents the philosophical work of Abd ar-Ramān Badawī’ – one of the Arab world’s first existential philosophers. The author analyzes Badawī’s existential and cultural philosophical writings and explores the philosophical discourses they negotiated as they emerged within multiple overlapping intellectual and political contexts.
Recent Arab intellectual debates are often described as revolving around Arab-Islamic cultural heritage (turāth) and the role that it ought to play in modern society. This debate is standardly characterized as a confrontation between traditionalists and modernists, the former idolizing an ‘authentic’ heritage, the latter blaming traditionalism for Arab society’s inability to ‘modernize’.
This study argues that this standard narrative has become overly dominant, making it impossible for different perspectives to be either voiced or heard. It calls for a critical review of how we think about contemporary Arab thought through an analysis of the progressive-linear temporal structure underlying the authenticity-modernity dichotomy. Looking in detail at three Arab intellectuals of the last fifty years – Zakī Najīb Maḥmūd, Adonis, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ṭāhā – the study shows how this temporal structure underlies their thinking, but also how their efforts to break away from it build on a critique of its temporal basis. This analysis in turn enables an overhaul of the authenticity-modernity paradigm, which not only leads to a richer, critical engagement with contemporary Arab thought, but also brings out its moral dimensions.