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The Critique of Arab Reason Between al-Jabri and Tarabishi

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Abstract

The disagreement between al-Jabri and Tarabishi over the Arabs and their language in general and the pre-Islamic Arabs in particular is an ostensible rather than a substantial disagreement. It is a disagreement about theoretical frameworks, which does not lead to a difference between the results of their research, and that their research outcomes are not, in the final analysis, different from research studies that endorse the a priori ideas about the Arabs in general and the pre-Islamic Arabs in particular. In this paper, the authors aim to demonstrate that the disagreement between the two thinkers over the presence of philosophy in Arab-Islamic civilization is also an ostensible one, and that Tarabishi’s critique of al-Jabri, at its best, does not go beyond the disagreement over theoretical frameworks. Both al-Jabri and Tarabishi agree on the non-existence of philosophy per se and disagree over their methods of demonstrating it.

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  1. Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine

    Abdul Karim Barghouti, Jamal Daher & Nadim Mseis

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  1. University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

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

    Francesca M. Corrao

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Barghouti, A.K., Daher, J., Mseis, N. (2018). The Critique of Arab Reason Between al-Jabri and Tarabishi. 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_3

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