More #contemporaryArabThought on #traditionTurath #History #Religion with #Laraoui #Jabri #Tarabishi #Abderrahmane 1/
#Ourya argues that too much attention has been paid to #salafis and #traditionalists and #IslamicRevival and not enough on the critical engagement with #tradition in contemporary thought 2/
#Laraoui is presented as a modernist seeking to refute #salafi logic and its vision of history in order to allow for an embrace of modernity by contemporary Arab thinkers 3/
#Jabri on the other hand assumes that #salafi logic is here to stay and hence any contemporary intellectual project needs to engage it head on and deal with the causes of ‘historical decline’ - of course #Jabri position is rooted in a racist rejection of #Avicenna 4/
#Tarabishi is a more interesting case of a critical engagement with #Arab reason and locating #Islam within that - and stripping away the tradition to find a core that makes sense as a universal basis for secularism and put in convo with contemporary philosophy 5/
#Abderrahmane critiques both #tradition and #modernity but is the one thinker more attuned to the #turath 6/
Overall this is a very useful study of how contemporary Arab intellectuals deal with the question of #Turath 7/
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