"The Formation of Arab Reason" Mohammad Abed al-Jabri (2011)

Since the earliest period of Islamic history, Arab thought has been dominated by a reverence for tradition and textual analysis. In this groundbreaking work, the great contemporary Arab philosopher Mohammed Abed Al-Jabiri seeks to chart a route towards modernity via the proposition that respect for textualism and tradition are not inconsistent with rationalism and that both history and philosophy are key to the evolution of knowledge systems and ways of reasoning in Arab culture.
This book has been an enormous influence within the Arab world on the Islam and modernity discourse. It is published here for the first time in English and provides a fascinating insight into the currents of contemporary Arab thought.

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Title: The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World (Contemporary Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences)
Author: Mohammad Abed al-Jabri
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Year: 2011
Number of pages: 320.................................

* Introduction *

Part OneArab Reason…..In What Sense?

Primary approaches *

Reason…..culture * Arab Cultural time and the problem of progress *

The époque of codification: The Authoritative referential framework for Arab Thought *

Part Two
Formation of the Arab reason- The intellectual and the ideological- In the Arab culture *

The Bedouin: the originator of Arab 'world' *

Legislation is the province of the Legislator 1 *

Legislation is the province of the Legislator 2 *

Religiously 'intelligible' and rationally 'non-intelligible *

Resigned reason in inherited ancient tradition * Resigned reason in Arab-Islamic culture *

Incorporating reason in Islam *

The crisis of foundations…founding the crisis *

New beginning…..however! *

Conclusion: Science and politics in Arab culture *

References *

Index *