Arab philosophical trends : responses to modernity / Abdulrahman Al-Salimi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Al-Salimi, Abdulrahman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Arab--20th century.

Philosophy, Arab.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 398 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This resource illuminates the core beliefs of 20th-century Arab philosophers in response to Western ideas of modernisation.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Trends in Arab Thought between Past and Present: The Arab Heritage and Modernity

2 Al-'Aqlāniyya al-Mu'tadila (Moderate Rationalism): Yousuf Karam (1889-1959)

3 Al-Raḥimāniyya (Womb-ism): Zaki al-Din al-Arsuzi (1899-1968)

4 Al-Madraḥiyya (Material Spiritualism): Antoun Saadeh (1904-49)

5 Al-Jawwāniyya (Internalism): Othman Amin (1905-78)

6 Al-Kiyāniyya (Beingism): Charles Malik (1906-87)

7 Al-Waḍ'iyya al-Manṭiqiyya (Logical Positivism) and al-Iṣṭilāḥiyya al-Ṣūriyya (Formalist Conventionalism): Zaki Naguib Mahmoud (1905-93) and Yasin Khalil (1934-86)

8 Al-Shakhṣāniyya al-Mutawassiṭiyya (Mediterranean Personalism): René Habachi (1915-2003)

9 Al-Ta'āduliyya (Equilibriumism) and al-Naṣlāmiyya (Christislamity): Kamal Yousuf al-Hajj (1917-76)

10 Al-Wujūdiyya al-'Arabiyya (Arab Existentialism): Abderrahmane Badawi (1917-2002)

11 Al-Shakhṣāniyya al-Wāqi'yya (Realistic Personalism): Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi (1922-93)

12 Al-'Ilmawiyya (Scientism): Mohammed Abderrahman Marhaba (1925-2006)

13 Al-'Aqlāniyya al-'Arabiyya (Arab Rationalism): Husam al-Alusi (1936-2013)

14 Al-Tārīkhiyya al-Māddiyya (Historical Materialism): Sadik Jalal al-Azm (1934-2016)

15 Al-Tafkīkiyya (Deconstructionism) and al-Ikhtilāf (Difference): Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009)

16 Modernity and the Standard-bearer of Feminism: Fatema Mernissi (1940-2015)

17 Al-Tanwīriyya al-Rushdiyya (Rushdian Enlightenment): Murad Wahbah (1926-)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 16, 2026).

ISBN:

1-3995-0331-6

OCLC:

1435579514