Contemporary Moroccan Thought

Mohammed Hashas [Ḥaṣḥāṣ] (PhD 2013) is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Humanities and Society at Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy. His publications include Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm (2020), The Idea of European Islam (2019), and Islam, State and Modernity (2018). Contributors Deina Abdelkader, Nayla Abider, Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Salah Basalamah, Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Sara Borrillo, Ibrahim Bouhaouliane, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen, Driss El Ghazouani, Brahim El Guabli, Abdennabi El Harri, Amin El-Yousfi, Francesca Forte, Fatma Gargouri, Wael Hallaq, Mohammed Hashas, Alma Rachel Heckman, Aziz Hlaoua, Abdellatif Kidai, Markus Kneer, Mohamed Lamallam, Khalid Lyamlahi, Juan A. Macías-Amoretti, Djelloul Magoura, Mohammed K. B. Rhazzali, Raja Rhouni, Nils Riecken, Fatima Sadiqi, Hamza Salih, Ari Schriber, Simone Sibilio, and Abdessalam Tawil.

Foreword: Writing as Critical Intellectual Gratitude


Acknowledgements


Notes on Transliteration and Style


Notes on Contributors





1 Rabat School of Thought: Tradition, Modernity, and Critique from the Edge


 Mohammed Hashas





Part 1: Projects in Philosophy and Philosophical Thought


2 Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi’s ‘Realistic Personalism’: The Multidimensionality of the Human Person in a Muslim Context


 Markus Kneer





3 Abdallah Laroui’s Situated Universalist Critique of Western Modernity


 Nils Riecken





4 Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Question of Method in Reading the Tradition


 Nayla Abi Nader





5 Ali Oumlil’s Reform Agenda: Historical Consciousness, Tradition, and Modernity


 Abdessalam Tawil





6 Abderrahmane Taha’s Translation of Modernity into an Islamic Paradigm: Towards an Ethical Project of Liberation


 Salah Basalamah





7 Abdelkébir Khatibi: Epistemic Translation as a Mode of Nomadic Thinking


 Khalid Lyamlahy





8 Abdessalam Benabdelali’s Critical Thought: Towards a Philosophical Canon in Morocco


 Juan A. Macías-Amoretti





9 Ibn Rushd in Contemporary Moroccan Thought


 Abdennebi El Harri





10 Ibn Khaldūn in Contemporary Moroccan Thought


 Francesca Forte





11 The Particular Versus the Universal in Contemporary Arabic Philosophy: Abderrahmane Taha and Nassif Nassar


 Djelloul Magoura





Part 2: Projects in Theology, Theological Politics, and Sufism


12 Allal al-Fassi: Visions of Shariʿa in the Post-Colonial Moroccan State Laws


 Ari Schriber





13 Mohamed Hassan al-Ouazzani and the Centrality of the Political: Liberalism Delayed


 Hamza Salih





14 Abdessalam Yassine: On Sovereignty and the Just Ruler


 Deina Abdelkader





15 Farid al-Ansari: From the Islamist Movement’s ‘Political Inflation’ to the Aesthetics of Qur’an


 Amin El-Yousfi





16 Ahmed Al-Raissouni’s Minimalist Political Theory: Freedom at the Nexus of Human Fiṭra, Public Morality, and State Power


 Mohamed Lamallam





17 Ahmed El Khamlichi’s Views for Islamic Juridical Renewal


 Ibrahim Bouhaouliane





18 Fatema Mernissi, the Demon of Coloniality and Decolonial Exorcisms


 Raja Rhouni





19 Asma Lamrabet’s Theology: Navigating Islam, Gender Equality and Decolonial Thought


 Sara Borrillo





20 The Gender Debate in Contemporary Morocco and the Formation of the ‘Middle’


 Fatima Sadiqi





21 The Būtshīshiyya Sufi Order: From Retreat to Engagement with the Political


 Aziz Hlaoua





Part 3: Projects in the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies


22 Mahdi Elmandjra’s Futurology and Arab Issues


 Fatma Gargouri Bahloul





23 Abdellah Hammoudi: For an Arab Anthropology


 Kholoud Al Ajarma





24 Sociology Studies in Morocco: Trajectories, Actors, and Challenges


 Abdellatif Kidai, Driss El Ghazouani, and Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali





25 Mohammed Bennis’s Thought and Poetics: On Modernity, Writing, and Space


 Simone Sibilio





26 Abdelfattah Kilito: On the Merits of Bilingualism and the Persistence of Colonial Linguistic Paradigms


 Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed





27 Abdellatif Laâbi and the Decolonial Roar: “All Silence Is Death by Default”


 Tina Dransfeldt Christensen





28 Dreams and Disillusion: Moroccan Jewish Leftists and the Struggle for Democracy


 Alma Rachel Heckman





29 Discursive and Theoretical Practices in Moroccan Cultural Journals during the “Years of Lead” (1956–1999)


 Brahim El Guabli





30 Afterword: Reforming Modernity in Contemporary Moroccan Philosophy – A Conversation


 Wael Hallaq





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