Criticism of Jabri's Approach and Method in Explaining the  Arab Intellect  from the Point of View of Critics of the Arab WZorld

Rabbanizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Rahim; Daryabeigi, Mohsen; Lotfi, Lotfollah

doi:10.30465/crtls.2025.48330.2831

Document Type : Research

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor of Islamic Iranian History, Faculty Member at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

² Member of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, Tehran, Iran

³ Researcher in the History of Islamic Iran, Member of the Department of Education and Humanities, Amirkabir University of Technology

10.30465/crtls.2025.48330.2831

Abstract

Getting out of decadence is one of the major issues of thought of contemporary thinkers of the Arab world. The gap between the current situation of the Arab world and the Western world and the recognition of the main factors of this and how to get out of it has been a matter of concern. Mohammad Abed Al-Jabari, one of the prominent thinkers of the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, made the knowledge of tradition and how to reproduce it in the new world the center of his thought. After authoring the book "Al-Khattab al-Arabi al-Mudhamdin" (Contemporary Arabic Discourse), he focused his research on explaining a method to criticize the Arabic intellect, which became one the most controversial issues in the Arab world. In addition to giving a brief description of Mohammad Abid Jabri's project and the framework of his thinking about Shia and mysticism in Islamic history and culture, this article deals with the formulation of Arab thinkers' criticisms. The categorization of this critical view has been done based on the content, form and data of Jabri, which is remarkable for the inclusion of discussion and attention to his status in the Arab world. The main question of this article is the position of Mohammad Abed Al-Jabri among the thinkers of the Arab world. While expressing some of these criticisms, we judged them. Our method was descriptive analysis. The classification of these criticisms is in three levels: 1. Attitudinal-methodical criticism 2. Criticism of historical data 3. Criticism of structure. A purely structural view without considering the capacity of the Arab East to get out of the cultural situation of the new world while being influenced by Orientalists is one of the main problems of Jabri's project.

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Criticism of Jabri's Approach and Method in Explaining the Arab Intellect from the Point of View of Critics of the Arab WZorld

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Volume 25, Issue 1 - Serial Number 119
May 2025
Pages 133-170

Criticism of Jabri's Approach and Method in Explaining the Arab Intellect from the Point of View of Critics of the Arab WZorld

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Volume 25, Issue 1 - Serial Number 119May 2025Pages 133-170

Volume 25, Issue 1 - Serial Number 119
May 2025
Pages 133-170