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He spent his primary education in taourirtmimoun and his secondary education in oran. After he got his degree, as one of the few muslims attending the french school i. Professor of the history of islamic civilization at the new sorbonne university paris iii from 1972 to. Masthead text only contact about us sitemap home politics society culture dossiers dialogues slide shows to the editor. He realized that, as a berber, he belonged to a minority and lacked the. The islamic scholar mohammed arkoun died on 14 september 2010 in paris. Pdf mohammad arkoun has been credited with the much needed attention to the. Mohammed arkoun has 60 books on goodreads with 10103 ratings.
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Hadrat mirza bashiruddin mahmud ahmad khalifatul masih ii first published in uk in 1990 second edition published in uk in 2005 third edition published in uk in 2009 fourth edition published in uk in oct. Secret struggle to free the hostages, fight terrorism, and end a war, crown, 1999. Thereafter he was professor at the faculty of philology of strasbourg university. In this book, he advocates a conception of islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, sunni and shia, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. Mohammed arkoun 19282010 was a leading scholar of islam, teaching in france. Oct 19, 2010 mohammed arkoun, who has died aged 82, was one of the most original scholars in the field of islamic studies. At the age of nine he moved with his father to a prosperous village near oran inhabited by french settlers. According to arkoun, the final formation of the qur. Relevance of mohammed arkouns thought unesco, room ix 17 novembre 2011 2 p. At the age of nine, he moved together with his father to a. Mohammad arkoun has been credited with the much needed attention to the quranic hermeneutics. His father, abdullah, was the son of abd almuttalib. Professor muhammad arkoun 1928 2010, an algerianfrench thinker, defends a postmodernist position, criticizes the islamic reason as well as the eurocentric modernism, using an historical anthropological methodology, and aims at founding the new science of applied islamics. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his.
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His mother, aminah was the daughter of wahb bin abd almanaf of the zahrah family. Topics nternational islamic publishing house language. He majored in philosophy in algeria and france at the university of sorbonne. He was known as an advocate of a new islamic modernism and humanism. A textual analysis of his writings shows that his major concern is the methodology of. Annals of the american academy of political and social science, vol. Mohammed arkouns contact with sufism and the knowledge of the basics of the quran.
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