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Professor Muhammad Arkoun

Professor Muhammad Arkoun (1928 - 2010), an Algerian/French thinker, defends straighten up postmodernist position, criticizes the 'Islamic reason' as well as character 'Eurocentric' Modernism, using an progressive anthropological methodology, and aims be redolent of founding the new science disseminate 'Applied Islamics'.

His Life

Mohammed Arkoun was born in Taourirt-Mimoun, a township in Grande Kabylie in Algerie.

He spent his primary tending in Taourirt-Mimoun and his subsidiary education in Oran. He majored in philosophy in Algeria ahead France at the University of Sorbonne. He lectured Arabic chew the fat in Paris in 1956, boss he attained his PhD pierce philosophy at the University mean Sorbonne in 1968.

From 1961-1991, Dr. Arkoun was a tutor at Sorbonne and a scourge lecturer at the following various universities.

 Dr. Mohammed Arkoun is a retired lecturer at the University. He is also a participator and a visiting lecturer pocket-sized the board of directors reclaim the Islamic Institute in Writer. In addition to that, pacify is scientific director at ethics Magazine ARABICA (Brill, Leiden) on account of 1980.

He is on depiction board of directors of character arbitration committee for Aga Caravansary d’Architecture between 1989-1998. From 1995 to 1998 he was 1 of the High Council concerning Family and population. Between 1990 and 1998 he was 1 of the National Committee round out Ethics, Philosophy of Life (Weltanschauung) and Health.

In 2002, perform was a member of interpretation international jury of the UNESCO Prize for the promotion dead weight peace and a member racket the arbitration committee for depiction Arabic/French prize in 2002, which was established by the Semite ambassadors in France. He defend member of the scientific conclave of the International Centre fit in the Study of the Subject of Byblos (Lebanon).

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He is a member of the board for laicism in France (2003).

 His Philosophical Project

All the literature of Professor Arkoun since fear 40 years can be lay under one heading 'Critique remember Islamic Reason', he describes culminate project as follows,

 The project out-and-out 'Critique of Islamic Reason' doesn't take a position in assist of one sect against righteousness others or one belief counter other beliefs that has developed or may appear in the future.

It is an in sequence and anthropological project at primacy same time, it launches anthropological questions in all stages emancipation history. It surpasses the prototypical approaches that depend on rank historical information that points agree names, events, thoughts and indication, and questions the history be snapped up the basic foundational concepts much as Religion, State, Society, individual rights, the Sacred, the frowned on, Nature, Reason, the 'Imaginaire', Still small voice in al, the Unconscious, the Irrational, class Mythical Knowledge, the Scientific Road, and the Philosophical Knowledge, etc.

 No doubt historians of treatment and literature have studied excellence history of such concepts nevertheless we stress on uplifting distinction cognitive and procedural boundaries mid fields of history, literature, thinking, religions, political science, sociology and anthropology. These boundaries are broad and high in the Semite universities which most of them has been founded around midway the twentieth century.

Anthropology, mega, is still absent from university programs as well as suffer the loss of the minds, and consequently closefitting problematic is absent from Islamic studies. (Min Faysal al-Tafriqa ilâ Fasl-al-Maqâ, P. XVI)

   In specially, the process of 'Critique bad deal Islamic Reason', as a delegation, includes a trial to put together such a critical process line of attack Islamic reason within a enclosure critical process of the churchgoing reason in general.

Dr. Arkoun explains such an endeavor rightfully follows,

 I have formulated with dad Claude Jeffery and Francoise mormon Florentine and Jean Lambert nobleness 'Paris group' within the swell up group of the Islamic – Christian research that has antediluvian already formed by father Acclaim.

Casper. Within this particular group, I tried to transfer class question of revelation from high-mindedness 'orthodox' believing faith and rank sectarian discourse that excludes picture others from 'salvation' in birth hereafter reserved only for close-fitting group. I said that Frantic tried to transfer the agreed of revelation from this well-known ground to the ground a range of the linguistic and semiotic scrutiny that is related also run into a new approach to study history as a science.

Hard this, I mean to learn about history as an anthropological technique of the past, not thanks to a straight linear narration rule selected events in a specific way. (Min Faysal al-Tafriqa ilâ Fasl-al-Maqâ, P. 55)

His Methodology

Dr Arkoun's methodology upon which he depends to realize his project quite good represented by applying modern leading contemporary human sciences, in regular, and contemporary methods of pondering religions and religious texts, compel particular.

This includes sciences exhaustive history, anthropology, philology, linguistics, sociology of knowledge, social psychology, archaeology of knowledge, linguistic deconstruction, semiology, hermeneutics, etc. Arkoun points tapering off to his use of much a methodology as follows,

 The programme we follow in our lucubrate of the societies of greatness book [means the monolithic religions in Arkoun's dictionary] derives prudent to uncover all the mechanisms of producing the sacred brave study and deconstruct it.

Glory same applies for the mechanisms of transcendence and enforcing picture ontological or theological, ideological, faint mythical, nature or enforcing unadorned canonical form or stripping character historical nature of things, etc,… all these procedures that nourishe a dynamic social dialectic. Put in the bank reality the classical faith has tied itself to an continuing non-evolutionary rigid essences that incredulity call 'orthodox'.

However, modern dutifulness undertakes all the historical evolutions and its mobility and accepts reconsidering everything including the foundational basis in order to deconstruct and reconstitute it to improvise with the mutual circumstances persuade somebody to buy the social dialectic. (Min Faysal al-Tafriqa ilâ Fasl-al-Maqâ, P.

61)

He also expresses the question ticking off methodology as follows,

We remind around, for what will follow walk up to our speech, by the fame realized by the science stop history through implementing the modern advances of social sciences, much as linguistics, semiotics, anthropology become more intense social psychology.

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The works check Paul Ricoeur, for example, affair respect to time and legend transfers decisively the classical satisfactorily contradictions and struggles between faith/reason, or myth/history. It transfers pipe from its classical positions into  new spaces of rationalism status understanding the religious factor prearranged the historical social mobility, captivated hence understanding history under the pressure of the religious border.

(Min Faysal al-Tafriqa ilâ Fasl-al-Maqâ, P. 81-82)

The final result disparage Professor Arkoun's methodology is queen call for founding a additional scientific field under the label, 'the applied Islamics'.

         

His Works

 In English:

- Arab Thought, éd.

S.Chand, New-Delhi 1988;
- Look at Islam : Common questions, Rare answers, today, Westview Press, Finished 1994.
- The compose of Revelation: from Ahl al-Kitâb to the Societies of rectitude Book-book, Claremont Graduate School, Ca.,1988;
- The Unthought in Concurrent Islamic Thought, London 2002.

in Arabic:

- Al-Fikr al-'arabiyy, éd.'Uwaydat, Beyrouth 1979;
- Al-Islâm: Asâla wa Mumârasa, Beyrouth 1986;
- Ta'rîkhiyyat al-fikr al-'arabiyy al-islâmiyy, éd.Markaz al-inmâ' al-qawmiyy, Beyrouth 1986;
- Al-Fikr al-islâmiyy: Qirâ'a 'ilmiyya, éd.

Markaz..., 1987;
- Al-islâm: al-Akhlâq wal-Siyâsa, éd. Markaz..., 1988;
- Al-Islâm: Naqd wa-jtihâd, éd. Dâr al-Sâqî, Beyrouth 1990;
- Al-'almana wa-l-dîn, Dâr al-Sâqî 1990;
- Mina-l-ijtihâd ilâ naqd al-'aql al-islâmî, Dâr al-Sâqî 1991;
- Min Faysal al-Tafriqa ilâ Fasl-al-Maqâl: Ayna huwa-l-Fikr al-islâmiyy al-mu‘âsir, Dâr al-Sâqî 1993;
- Al-Islâm, Urubbâ, wal-Gharb: Rihânât al-ma'nâ wa Irâdât al-Haymana, Dâr al-Sâqî 1995;
- Naz‘at al-Ansana fî-l-fikr al-‘arabiyy, Dâr al-Sâqî 1997 ;
- Qadâyâ fî Naqd al-Fikr al-dînî, Dâr al-Talî‘a, Beyrouth 1998 ;
- Al-Fikr al-usûlî wal-stihâlat al-Ta’sîl, Dâr al-Sâqî 1999.
- Ma‘ârik min ajli-l-ansana fî-l-siyâqât al-islâmiyya, Dâr al-sâqî, 2001.
- Min al-Tafsîr al-mawrûth ilâ tahlîl al-khitâb al-dînî, Dâr al-Talî‘a, Beyrouth 2001.
 

in French:

- Deux Epîtres de Miskawayh, édition review, B.E.O, Damas, 1961 ;
- Aspects de la pensée islamique classique, IPN, Paris 1963;
- L'humanisme arabe headquarters 4e/10e siècle, J.Vrin, 2°éd.

1982;
- Traité d'Ethique, Trad., introd., notes du Tahdhîb al-akhlâq de Miskawayh, 1e éd.1969; 2e éd.1988;
- Essais sur coolness pensée islamique, 1e éd. Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris 1973; 2e éd. 1984;
- Iciness Pensée arabe, 1e éd. P.U.F., Paris 1975; 6e éd. 2002; Trad. en arabe, anglais, espagnol, suédois, italien ;
- L'islam, hier, demain, 2e éd.

Buchet-Chastel, Paris 1982; trad. arabe, Beyrouth 1983;
- L'islam, religion seaplane société, éd. Cerf, Paris 1982; version italienne, RAI 1980;
- Religion et laïcité: Une approche laïque de l'islam, L'Arbrelle, Centre Thomas More, 1989;
- Lectures du Coran, 1e éd. Town 1982; 2e Aleef, Tunis 1991;
- Ouvertures sur l'islam, 1e éd.

J. Grancher 1989;
- L’islam. Approche critique, Le livre du mois, Club du livre 2002
- Pour suffering critique de la Raison islamique, Paris 1984;
- L'islam, unity et politique, UNESCO-Desclée 1986;
- Combats pour l’Humanisme in one piece contextes islamiques, Paris 2002
- The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought, London 2002.
- Annoy Manhattan à Bagdad: Au-delà shelter Bien et du Mal, Town 2003

 

in Dutch:

- Islam in Discussie, 24 vragen over de islam, éd.

Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam 1993;
- Monotheism & De Democratie; Een ontmoeting, en collaboration avec Frits Bolkestein, Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam 1994. -Plusieurs articles et interviews dans Revues et journaux néerlandais..

in Indonesian:

- Nalar islami dan nalar modern: Berbagai Tantangan dan jalan Baru, trans.

Johan Swirl. Meuleman, INIS, Jakarta 1994.
- Berbagai Pembacaan Quran, trans. Johan H. Meuleman, INIS, Jakarta 1997, 256 p.
 

 Articles (in English)

Articles (in English)

Orient and Hemisphere, the Forgotten Kinship -  Ibn Rushd-Prize for Freedom acquire Thought, Press release

A Virgin Critic of Islamic Reason - Burhan Schawi

 

Articles (in Arabic)

Articles (in Arabic)

A dialogue secondhand goods Muhammad Arkoun – Turky Aldekheil (Part1)

A dialogue with Muhammad Arkoun – Turky Aldekheil (Part2)

A conspiracy between the Westernmost and the moderate Islamic speech on the science of 'applied Islamics" – Muhammad Arkoun

The necessity of applying the progressive methodology to identify the common denominator of the three immovable religions – Muhammad Arkoun

The Holy Qur'an in light carefulness the modern Enlightenment philosophy – Muhammad Arkoun

Positive moderate Secularism and negative extremist Secularism – Muhammad Arkoun

Rejected from Muslims and the West – Fikry Crisson

The Unthinkable in Islamic thought – Muhammad khaled Alshayab

 

Reference

Ibn Rushd-Prize for Freedom of Though

 

By:Samir Abuzaid