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The Ibn Rushd Fund learned with great sorrow about the death of the Algerian-born philosopher Mohammed Arkoun. The great Arab intellectual died Tuesday night, September 14th, at the age of 82 in Paris, where he had taught the history of Islamic Thought at the Sorbonne University. In his late years he also taught Applied Islamology […]
Continue ReadingMohammed Arkoun, one of the most prominent modern philosophers in the Arab world and an active advisor of many political, academic, religious decision makers for Islamic studies and systems of education, is explicitly opposed to the thesis of the ‘clash of civilisations’ that has been made to look so inevitable.
Continue ReadingMembers of the Jury of Ibn Rushd Prize 2003 Prof. Ahmad El-Baqhdadi The Kuwaiti scholar Dr. Ahmad Ali El-Baqhdadi, born in 1951, attained his PhD in “Islamic Thought” from The University of Edinburgh. He is a lecturer and head of the Department of Political Science in the University of Kuwait. Several translations and research studies […]
Continue ReadingAutobiography of Mohammed Arkoun Mohammed Arkoun was born in Taourirt-Mimoun, a town in Grande Kabylie in Algeria. He spent his primary education in Taourirt-Mimoun and his secondary education in Oran. He majored in philosophy in Algeria and France at the University of Sorbonne. He lectured Arabic language in Paris in 1956, and he attained his PhD […]
Continue ReadingPrizes for Freedom of Thought in the Arab WorldThe IBN RUSHD Fund for Freedom of Thought will award its PRIZE 2003 toan Arab thinker and professor (fem., masc.) who has rendered outstanding services inthe field of enlightenment, who has offered through his theoretical work a genuinelyArab guide to reason finding new perspectives for the present […]
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