Arab Philosophical Trends

Abdulrahman al-Salimi is a Governor at the German University of Technology, Sultanate of Oman. He has written and published various books and articles on classical Islamic history.

Arab Philosophical Trends combines erudition and creativity, intimacy with the subject and dialogues between the past and present with methodological feeling and excellent epistemology. In tune with contemporary, plural and decolonial studies, this book offers a fascinating picture of the richness of Arab thought, ancient legacy and dialectical overcoming during the current challenges. Al-Salimi brings back a treasure eclipsed in the 20th century not for a museum but for a Socratic field of free thought, life and improvement of dialogue that is so urgent and necessary between East and West.

• Acknowledgements Introduction1 Trends in Arabic Thought between Past and Present: The Arab Heritage and Modernity 2 Al-‘Aqlaniyya 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-T‘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 (1922–2003)12 Al-‘Ilmāwiyya (‘Scientism’): Mohammed Abderrahman Marhaba (1925–2006)13 Al-‘Aqlāniyya al-‘Arabiyya (‘Arab Rationalism’): Husam al-Alusi (1936–2013)14 Al-Tārīkhiyya al-Mādiyya (‘Historical Materialism’): Sadik Jalal al-Azm (1934–2016)15 Al-Tafkīkiyya (‘Deconstructionism’) and al-Ikhtilāf (‘Difference’): Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009)16 Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015): Modernity and the Standard-Bearer of Feminism17 Al-Tanwīriyya Rushdiyya (‘Rushdian Enlightenment’): Murad Wahbah (1926–)ConclusionBibliography Index