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Contemporary Moroccan Thought
On Philosophy, Theology, Society, and Culture
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Contemporary Moroccan Thought offers a new and broad coverage of the intellectual dynamics and scholarly output of what is presented here as the Rabat School since the 1950s. Geographically situated at the western edge of the classical Arab-Islamic world, Moroccan scholarship has made a belated yet vigorous comeback on the modern Arab intellectual scene, attracting wider reception beyond the Arabic-speaking world, through influential contributions in philosophical, theological, social and cultural studies.
This volume sets a new standard in the study of Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern societies, and will undoubtedly remain an important scholarly reference for generations to come.
Contributors: Deina Abdelkader, Nayla Abi Nader, 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 Lyamlahy, Juan A. MacÃas-Amoretti, Djelloul Magoura, Mohammed K. B. Rhazzali, Raja Rhouni, Nils Riecken, Fatima Sadiqi, Hamza Salih, Ari Schriber, Simone Sibilio, and Abdessalam Tawil.
This volume sets a new standard in the study of Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern societies, and will undoubtedly remain an important scholarly reference for generations to come.
Contributors: Deina Abdelkader, Nayla Abi Nader, 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 Lyamlahy, Juan A. MacÃas-Amoretti, Djelloul Magoura, Mohammed K. B. Rhazzali, Raja Rhouni, Nils Riecken, Fatima Sadiqi, Hamza Salih, Ari Schriber, Simone Sibilio, and Abdessalam Tawil.
Mohammed Hashas [ḤaṣḥÄá¹£] (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).
"Contemporary Moroccan Thought offers a breathtakingly interdisciplinary survey of a rich debate on philosophy, theology, society, politics and culture. Mohammed Hashasâ intriguing preface and introduction make a strong case for considering this tradition in a national context, with an innovative typology of ânear-far-other,â which invites comparative work and provides myriad inroads for scholars of modern Morocco." - Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, author of Democracy and Civil Society in Arab Political Thought
"This is an invaluable work that is appearing at the right time. Hashasâ long, learned introduction is especially useful as a guide to the volume as a whole. With his essay and the rest of the studies the work is almost encyclopaedic in its coverage and will be mined by advanced students and seasoned scholars from a wide range of humanities disciplines for many years for insights on the whole atmosphere of thought in the Maghrib, the approaches of specific Maghribi thinkers, and details of key moments in Moroccan intellectual history. A necessary work in the collection of any researcher into the intellectual history of the Maghribi and Islamic world." - Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town, author of Language, Identity, Modernity: The Arabic Study Circle of Durban
"This is a valuable and much needed addition to the field of contemporary Arab intellectual history. Hashas has put together first-rate essays on major and diverse figures of contemporary Moroccan thought. Together, they invite the reader to explore the wide range of themes and disciplines that Moroccan thinkers have been delving into and also to critically assess the edge that they might represent in the larger regional context." - Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
"This is an invaluable work that is appearing at the right time. Hashasâ long, learned introduction is especially useful as a guide to the volume as a whole. With his essay and the rest of the studies the work is almost encyclopaedic in its coverage and will be mined by advanced students and seasoned scholars from a wide range of humanities disciplines for many years for insights on the whole atmosphere of thought in the Maghrib, the approaches of specific Maghribi thinkers, and details of key moments in Moroccan intellectual history. A necessary work in the collection of any researcher into the intellectual history of the Maghribi and Islamic world." - Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town, author of Language, Identity, Modernity: The Arabic Study Circle of Durban
"This is a valuable and much needed addition to the field of contemporary Arab intellectual history. Hashas has put together first-rate essays on major and diverse figures of contemporary Moroccan thought. Together, they invite the reader to explore the wide range of themes and disciplines that Moroccan thinkers have been delving into and also to critically assess the edge that they might represent in the larger regional context." - Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
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
âMohammed Hashas
2 Mohamed Aziz Lahbabiâs âRealistic Personalismâ: The Multidimensionality of the Human Person in a Muslim Context
âMarkus Kneer
3 Abdallah Larouiâs Situated Universalist Critique of Western Modernity
âNils Riecken
4 Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Question of Method in Reading the Tradition
âNayla Abi Nader
5 Ali Oumlilâs Reform Agenda: Historical Consciousness, Tradition, and Modernity
âAbdessalam Tawil
6 Abderrahmane Tahaâs Translation of Modernity into an Islamic Paradigm: Towards an Ethical Project of Liberation
âSalah Basalamah
7 Abdelkébir Khatibi: Epistemic Translation as a Mode of Nomadic Thinking
âKhalid Lyamlahy
8 Abdessalam Benabdelaliâs Critical Thought: Towards a Philosophical Canon in Morocco
âJuan A. MacÃas-Amoretti
9 Ibn Rushd in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
âAbdennebi El Harri
10 Ibn Khaldūn in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
âFrancesca Forte
11 The Particular Versus the Universal in Contemporary Arabic Philosophy: Abderrahmane Taha and Nassif Nassar
âDjelloul Magoura
12 Allal al-Fassi: Visions of Shariʿa in Post-Colonial Moroccan State Law
âAri Schriber
13 Mohamed Hassan al-Ouazzani and the Centrality of the Political: Liberalism Delayed
âHamza Salih
14 Abdessalam Yassine: On Sovereignty and the Just Ruler
âDeina Abdelkader
15 Farid al-Ansari: From the Islamist Movementâs âPolitical Inflationâ to the Aesthetics of Qurâan
âAmin El-Yousfi
16 Ahmed Al-Raissouniâs Minimalist Political Theory: Freedom at the Nexus of Human Fiá¹ra, Public Morality, and State Power
âMohamed Lamallam
17 Ahmed El Khamlichiâs Views for Islamic Juridical Renewal
âIbrahim Bouhaouliane
18 Fatema Mernissi, the Demon of Coloniality and Decolonial Exorcisms
âRaja Rhouni
19 Asma Lamrabetâs Theology: Navigating Islam, Gender Equality and Decolonial Thought
âSara Borrillo
20 The Gender Debate in Contemporary Morocco and the Formation of the âMiddleâ
âFatima Sadiqi
21 The Būtshīshiyya Sufi Order: From Retreat to Engagement with the Political
âAziz Hlaoua
22 Mahdi Elmandjraâs Futurology and Arab Issues
âFatma Gargouri Bahloul
23 Abdellah Hammoudi: For an Arab Anthropology
âKholoud Al-Ajarma
24 Sociology Studies in Morocco: Trajectories, Actors, and Challenges
âAbdellatif Kidai, Driss El Ghazouani, and Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali
25 Mohammed Bennisâs Thought and Poetics: On Modernity, Writing, and Space
âSimone Sibilio
26 Abdelfattah Kilito: On the Merits of Bilingualism and the Persistence of Colonial Linguistic Paradigms
âMohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
27 Abdellatif Laâbi and the Decolonial Roar: âAll Silence Is Death by Defaultâ
âTina Dransfeldt Christensen
28 Dreams and Disillusion: Moroccan Jewish Leftists and the Struggle for Democracy
âAlma Rachel Heckman
29 Discursive and Theoretical Practices in Moroccan Cultural Journals during the âYears of Leadâ (1956â1999)
âBrahim El Guabli
30 Afterword: Reforming Modernity in Contemporary Moroccan Philosophy â A Conversation
âWael Hallaq
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Style
Notes on Contributors
1 Rabat School of Thought: Tradition, Modernity, and Critique from the Edge
âMohammed Hashas
Part 1: Projects in Philosophy and Philosophical Thought
2 Mohamed Aziz Lahbabiâs âRealistic Personalismâ: The Multidimensionality of the Human Person in a Muslim Context
âMarkus Kneer
3 Abdallah Larouiâs Situated Universalist Critique of Western Modernity
âNils Riecken
4 Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Question of Method in Reading the Tradition
âNayla Abi Nader
5 Ali Oumlilâs Reform Agenda: Historical Consciousness, Tradition, and Modernity
âAbdessalam Tawil
6 Abderrahmane Tahaâs Translation of Modernity into an Islamic Paradigm: Towards an Ethical Project of Liberation
âSalah Basalamah
7 Abdelkébir Khatibi: Epistemic Translation as a Mode of Nomadic Thinking
âKhalid Lyamlahy
8 Abdessalam Benabdelaliâs Critical Thought: Towards a Philosophical Canon in Morocco
âJuan A. MacÃas-Amoretti
9 Ibn Rushd in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
âAbdennebi El Harri
10 Ibn Khaldūn in Contemporary Moroccan Thought
âFrancesca Forte
11 The Particular Versus the Universal in Contemporary Arabic Philosophy: Abderrahmane Taha and Nassif Nassar
âDjelloul Magoura
Part 2: Projects in Theology, Theological Politics, and Sufism
12 Allal al-Fassi: Visions of Shariʿa in Post-Colonial Moroccan State Law
âAri Schriber
13 Mohamed Hassan al-Ouazzani and the Centrality of the Political: Liberalism Delayed
âHamza Salih
14 Abdessalam Yassine: On Sovereignty and the Just Ruler
âDeina Abdelkader
15 Farid al-Ansari: From the Islamist Movementâs âPolitical Inflationâ to the Aesthetics of Qurâan
âAmin El-Yousfi
16 Ahmed Al-Raissouniâs Minimalist Political Theory: Freedom at the Nexus of Human Fiá¹ra, Public Morality, and State Power
âMohamed Lamallam
17 Ahmed El Khamlichiâs Views for Islamic Juridical Renewal
âIbrahim Bouhaouliane
18 Fatema Mernissi, the Demon of Coloniality and Decolonial Exorcisms
âRaja Rhouni
19 Asma Lamrabetâs Theology: Navigating Islam, Gender Equality and Decolonial Thought
âSara Borrillo
20 The Gender Debate in Contemporary Morocco and the Formation of the âMiddleâ
âFatima Sadiqi
21 The Būtshīshiyya Sufi Order: From Retreat to Engagement with the Political
âAziz Hlaoua
Part 3: Projects in the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
22 Mahdi Elmandjraâs Futurology and Arab Issues
âFatma Gargouri Bahloul
23 Abdellah Hammoudi: For an Arab Anthropology
âKholoud Al-Ajarma
24 Sociology Studies in Morocco: Trajectories, Actors, and Challenges
âAbdellatif Kidai, Driss El Ghazouani, and Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali
25 Mohammed Bennisâs Thought and Poetics: On Modernity, Writing, and Space
âSimone Sibilio
26 Abdelfattah Kilito: On the Merits of Bilingualism and the Persistence of Colonial Linguistic Paradigms
âMohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
27 Abdellatif Laâbi and the Decolonial Roar: âAll Silence Is Death by Defaultâ
âTina Dransfeldt Christensen
28 Dreams and Disillusion: Moroccan Jewish Leftists and the Struggle for Democracy
âAlma Rachel Heckman
29 Discursive and Theoretical Practices in Moroccan Cultural Journals during the âYears of Leadâ (1956â1999)
âBrahim El Guabli
30 Afterword: Reforming Modernity in Contemporary Moroccan Philosophy â A Conversation
âWael Hallaq
Index
Scholars, academic libraries, postgraduate students, and practitioners interested in the cultural history of contemporary Morocco, North Africa, and Arab-Islamic societies would find this work of immense value.