Common questions, uncommon answers is a book on islamic philosophy by dr. A critique of islamic reason the german islamic scholar ursula gunther has written a dissertation about arkoun, published by the german publisher ergon under the title. In a career of more than 30 years, he was an outstanding research scholar, a searching critic of the theoretical tensions embedded in the field of islamic studies, and a courageous public intellectual, carrying the banner of an often. Mohammed arkoun 21,476 likes 16 talking about this. In addition to that, he is scientific director at the magazine arabica brill, leiden since 1980. His mother tongue was berber, with french being his second and arabic his third language. Follow mohammed arkoun and explore their bibliography from s mohammed arkoun author page. In memory of professor mohammed arkoun the institute of. He spent his primary education in taourirtmimoun and his secondary education in oran.
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. It now seems to me that arkoun s insistence on a new theology could have been an incentive to me to think again about the concept of tawheed, unity of god as being an econosociopolitical issue rather than a metaphysical one. Mohammed arkoun has 60 books on goodreads with 10066 ratings. Arkoun s book has been cited in a number of scholarly sources for providing a contemporary understanding of the development of islamic philosophy and its effects in the muslim world. Mohammed arkoun is one of international modern islamic thinkers that his thought comes into islamic. Pdf this paper will look at the mohammed arkouns notion of religious discourse in light of ibn arabis description of revelation as a process of. Oct 19, 2010 mohammed arkoun, who has died aged 82, was one of the most original scholars in the field of islamic studies.
Pdf applied islamology is a mohammed arkouns thought and the critical notion of the weaknesses of islamology. Tinjauan mohammad arkoun tentang bahasa arab, teks dan. Article examines mohammed arkoun as one of the pioneers of a new muslim. Professor mohammed arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential figures in islamic studies. Muhammad arkoun, cultural bordercrosser and pioneer in critical. Islamic studies and new islamic readings, died in paris at age. In 1980, he switched to the sorbonne nouvelle paris iii, becoming director of the department of arabic and islamic history of ideas, and editor of. After attending the village primary school, he completed secondary school at peres blancs in oran. I investigate how the three muslim intellectuals fazlur rahman d. The study concluded that although he does not deny that orientalism provided some services to the arab islamic heritage, mohammed arkoun has not only criticized orientalism, its methods, its purposes, and its functions, but exceeded to criticism and tried to offer an alternative approach based on the idea of pluralism in disciplines as in. Jean mouttapa, director of the spirituality department at editions albin michel, senior editor of the landmark work published with mohammed arkoun as the.
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. Mohammed arkoun rethinking islam pdf from braudel to derrida. This thesis engages with three modern muslims accounts of the nature of the quran and its interpretation as basis for reform schemes. He is also a member and a visiting lecturer at the board of directors in the islamic institute in london.
As the editor of arabica, he broadened the journals scope, and played a significant role in shaping westernlanguage scholarship on islam. At the age of nine he moved with his father to a prosperous village near oran inhabited by french settlers. All that problems above is what attracted the attention of the writer to examine. The lecture had made such an impression that they were wael abu. For more than thirty years he applied academic disciplines of the west to the history and literature of the muslim world and its ancient traditions. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual islamic reform. Mohammed arkoun rethinking islam mohammed arkoun rethinking islam pdf pdf mohammed arkoun rethinking islam pdf download. He majored in philosophy in algeria and france at the university of sorbonne. Hasil buah pemikiran mohammed arkoun dapat dikatakan sangat fenomenal, tulisan dalam berbagai jurnal ilmiah atau buku kumpulan tulisan bersama teman. Rethinking islam today by mohammed arkoun was originally published as an occasional paper. Professor of the history of islamic civilization at the new sorbonne university paris iii from 1972 to. Pdf mohammad arkoun has been credited with the much needed attention to the quranic hermeneutics. Annals of the american academy of political and social science, vol.
Mohammed arkoun has 60 books on goodreads with 10103 ratings. Professor mohammed arkoun, a french academician of algerian origin, is emeritus professor of the history of islamic thought at the sorbonne paris iii, and visiting professor at universities in the united states, europe, and the muslim world. Mohammed arkoun was born in taourirtmimoun, a town in grande kabylie in algeria. Mohammed arkoun is a retired lecturer at the sorbonne.
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. Arkoun has also influenced the discussion on modern approaches to islamic architecture. A native of algeria, mohammed arkoun was born in 1928 in taouritmimoun, a small village in great kabylia. The perspective of orientalism in the contemporary arab. A berber from the mountainous region of algeria, mohammed arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of islamic thought. Autobiography of mohammed arkoun mohammed arkoun was born in taourirtmimoun, a town in grande kabylie in algeria. Pushing the limits introduction to the ideas and methods of mohammed arkoun with special regard to his interpretation of revelation written as a fulfilment of the requirements of the course. He was known as an advocate of a new islamic modernism and humanism. American academy of political and social science rethinking islam today authors. New perspectives for a jewishchristianmuslim dialogue, dalam journal of ecumenical. The islamic scholar mohammed arkoun died on 14 september 2010 in paris. Posts about mohammed arkoun written by am and ismailimail. Uksa served as the academic editor of this translation.
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