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Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and Ibn Khaldun: A Path to Modernity

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Abstract

Campanini brings two Arab philosophers that belong to two different historical moments together to this comparative study about the future of the Arab world . Campanini presents how Mohammed Abed al-Jabri studies Ibn Khaldun in the larger framework of his reconstruction and renewal of the Arab intellect in order to modernize the Arab world, by focusing on the two central concepts of ‘aṣabiyya (group feeling ) and dawla (state). According to Campanini, while Ibn Khaldun was utterly pessimistic, al-Jabri—like Gramsci —nurtures the optimism of the will against the pessimism of reason. Al-Jabri thinks that the future is different from the past and must substitute the past by improving it; there is the chance to change and improve the present situation; freedom and democracy are possible.

Inna Allāha lā yughayyiru mā bi-qawmin ḥattā yughayyiru mā bi-anfusihim

[Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.]

(Qur’ān 13, al-raʻ d, 11)

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  1. Department of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Massimo Campanini

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  1. University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

    Zaid Eyadat

  2. LUISS Guido Carli, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Francesca M. Corrao

  3. LUISS Guido Carli, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Mohammed Hashas

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Campanini, M. (2018). Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and Ibn Khaldun: A Path to Modernity. In: Eyadat, Z., Corrao, F., Hashas, M. (eds) Islam, State, and Modernity. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59760-1_2

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