Tabayyun
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description: Tabayyun is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to philosophical studies and critical theory, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
publisher: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
language: en
publication name: Tabayyun
issn: 2305-2465
items: The Concept of African Cultural Authenticity: Problematic and Methodological Issues and Other Topics
items: The Political in the Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
items: Featured Books
items: Abdallah Laroui and Western Culture: Marx and Montesquieu as Pathways to Overcoming Historical Delay
items: How Is This Paper Philosophy?
items: The Palestine Question and Abdallah Laroui's Historicism
items: Taha Abdurrahman’s Account of the Connection between Reason and Sense Perception
items: Leo Strauss on Max Weber: His Critique of Positivism
items: From the Problem of Reason to the Fact of Action: Epistemological Shifts in Kant’s Concept of Freedom
items: Fear and Political Emotion: Spinoza and the Relationship between Authority and Superstition
items: Manifestations of the Hidden: Negative Theology and the Philosophy of Religion
items: Philosophy and biography
items: Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology
items: Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society
items: Philosophical Style and Neutrality: A Critical Reading of Martha Nussbaum’s View
items: The Philosophy of Emotions between Aristotle and Chrysippus
items: Nancy Fraser’s Critique of Habermas’s Bourgeois Public Sphere and the Decolonial Challenge
items: Tolerance in African Philosophy: The Ubuntu Paradigm
items: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
items: The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education
items: The Invocation of Postmodernism in the Rejection of Political Modernity: A Critical Study of the Contributions of Abd al–Wahhab al–Messiri and Ali Harb
items: Edward Said and Wael Hallaq: Overlooked Questions in Postcolonial Studies
items: Postmodernism in Moroccan Philosophical Thought: On the Crisis of Reception and Application
items: The Negativity Crisis of AI Ethics
items: On Postmodernism in Contemporary Arab Philosophical Thought: An Inquiry into Interpretation, Appropriation, and Renewal
items: Postmodern Philosophy in Arab Thought: The Myth of Historical Linearity and the Metaphor of Fire
items: Two Perspectives On
items: La langue de Zemmour

The Concept of African Cultural Authenticity: Problematic and Methodological Issues and Other Topics
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description: Book Title: The Concept of African Cultural Authenticity: Problematic and Methodological Issues and Other Topics Author: Abdullahi Bola Reviewed by: Najat Mohammed Ali Publisher: Juba: Rafiqi Publishing and Printing House Year of Publication: 2025 Number of Pages: 163
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creator: Mujahid Eldouma
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tabayyun
date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 171
ending page: 178

The Political in the Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
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description: Book Title: The Political in the Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas Author: Sami Al Ghabri Publisher: Philias Laboratory, University of Sfax / Al Atrash Complex for Specialized Books, Tunis Year of Publication: 2026 Number of Pages: 227
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creator: Omar Badri
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date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 179
ending page: 187

Featured Books
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description: Hugo Drochon, Elites and Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026), 296 pp. Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2026), 268 pp. Christian J. Emden, Democracy and the Limits of Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 303 pp. RobertLane, ed., Pragmatism Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 328 pp.
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creator: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
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date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 189
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Abdallah Laroui and Western Culture: Marx and Montesquieu as Pathways to Overcoming Historical Delay
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description: This study examines how Abdallah Laroui conceptualizes historical delay and outlines the roles of objective Marxism, historicism, and translation within his conception of Arab modernity. It is based on a close reading of Larouiʼs major works – particularly Contemporary Arab Ideology, The Concept of Ideology, and translational prefaces – while tracing his engagement with Karl Marx, Montesquieu, and Ibn Khaldun through a comparative analytical approach combining textual analysis, conceptual reconstruction, and intellectual history. It argues that Laroui does not treat modernity as a cultural choice but as a historical reality whose internal logic must be understood and assimilated. Accordingly, overcoming historical delay requires first acknowledging its existence, then adopting a historicist perspective, appropriating objective Marxism as the distilled outcome of modern Western thought, and redefining translation as a fundamental instrument for modernizing Arab reason. The article concludes that Larouiʼs project transforms history into a practical horizon for learning, borrowing, and critical appropriation, while redefining the intellectual as a mediator between thought and reality. Within this framework, the critique of inherited tradition and the informed assimilation of the European historical experience emerge as complementary conditions for overcoming historical delay and enabling civilizational renewal.
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creator: Soufian EL Barrak
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date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 117
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How Is This Paper Philosophy?
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description: This paper answers a call made by Anita Allen to genuinely assess whether the field of philosophy has the capacity to sustain the work of diverse people. By identifying a pervasive culture of justification within professional philosophy, I gesture to the ways professional philosophy is not an attractive working environment for many diverse practioners. As a result of the downsides of the culture of justification that pervades professional philosophy, I advocate that the discipline of professional philosophy be cast according to a culture of praxis. Finally, I provide a comparative exercise using Graham Priestʼs definition of philosophy and Audre Lordʼs observations of the limitations of philosophical theorizing to show how these two disparate accounts can be understood as philosophical engagement with a shift to culture of praxis perspective.
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creator: Kristie Dotson
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date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 141
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The Palestine Question and Abdallah Laroui's Historicism
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description: This study offers a comprehensive critical reading of Abdullah Laroui’s approach to the Palestine question, based on his dynamic historicist method, which interprets historical calamities such as the Nakba and the 1967 defeat as moments of accountability and deconstructs the logic of colonial Zionist ideology. Laroui critiques rigid traditional Arab discourse and calls for an epistemological break with inherited modes of thought. Instead, he advocates for the pragmatic adoption of Western analytical tools (particularly Marxism) to create New rights and modernize Arab intellectual consciousness. Through a contemporary reading of Laroui’s texts, the analysis considers how historical defeats can become catalysts for intellectual transformation. It also places Laroui’s perspective in critical dialogue with Edward Said’s postcolonial approach, highlighting both shared concerns regarding Western hegemony and differences in methodology. The study concludes that Laroui’s internal critique and Said’s external critique offer complementary frameworks for understanding the Palestinian question as an intellectual, political, and cultural crisis, requiring a dual transformation that transcends both stagnation and dependency.
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creator: El-Hajj Mohamed al-Nassek
creator: Mohamed Ourya
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tabayyun
date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 89
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Taha Abdurrahman’s Account of the Connection between Reason and Sense Perception
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description: The article examines Taha Abdurrahman’s account of the relationship between reason and sense perception within his broader theory of reason, and assesses its consistency with Islamic theological and philosophical heritage. It argues that Abdurrahman expands the concept of reason, portraying it as a spiritual and heartfelt act intrinsically connected to sense perception, religion, and ethics. The article compares this view with the Islamic rational tradition, which distinguishes between reason and sense perception while acknowledging the interdependence of both in certain cognitive functions. The study concludes that Abdurrahman’s critique of heritage is marked by overgeneralization and conceptual ambiguity regarding connection and separation, as well as for attributing selective positions to Muslim intellectuals as whole. It further argues that his conception of reason aligns more closely with certain modern epistemological principles than with established Islamic theological and philosophical doctrine.
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creator: Abdellah Bakkali
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date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 69
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Leo Strauss on Max Weber: His Critique of Positivism
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description: This study examines Leo Strauss’s critique of positivism as a fundamental source of the crisis of political modernity. Through an analysis of his critical engagement with Max Weber’s interpretive sociology, it explores the methodological separation between facts and values – a distinction that Strauss argues ultimately leads to nihilism by depriving reason of its capacity to make normative judgments. Strauss contends that the application of natural scientific methods to human affairs reduces human beings to their technical dimensions, stripping political life of moral purposes and higher ends. The study concludes that Strauss’ critique, together with his call for a return to classical political philosophy and the concept of natural right, constitutes a philosophical effort to save human civilization from sliding into barbarism, and a firm rejection of the reduction of knowledge to an instrument of absolute domination.
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creator: Abderrahim Rajrahi
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date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 45
ending page: 67

From the Problem of Reason to the Fact of Action: Epistemological Shifts in Kant’s Concept of Freedom
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description: This article examines the concept of practical freedom in Kantian philosophy, tracing its transitional trajectory from the realm of transcendental dialectic in the Critique of Pure Reason to moral legislation in the Critique of Practical Reason. The paper argues that Kant rescues the concept of freedom from a theoretical impasse where it appears as a problem of reason that cannot be known, and transforms it into a fact of reason that establishes itself through moral law. In undertaking an analytical reading of the "Canon of Pure Reason", the study explores the epistemological distinction between transcendental freedom as a logical possibility and practical freedom as a form of causality that attains reality in the sensible world through moral action and autonomy.
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creator: Jaouad Gria
creator: Mohamed Meziane
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tabayyun
date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 27
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Fear and Political Emotion: Spinoza and the Relationship between Authority and Superstition
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description: This study explores the political question in Spinoza’s philosophy by examining his critique of superstition as a form of political metaphysics and his understanding of politics through the lens of psychological reality, particularly the role of political affects. Situated within the realist context that shaped political theory in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spinoza develops a political account deeply informed by psychological and historical analyses of the evolution of political thought. This perspective draws attention to his early defence of democracy as a system grounded in reflections on human nature and the historical development of political life. The study therefore focuses on the role of superstition as a tool of political domination and argues that freedom of thought and expression constitutes a necessary condition for the formation of a democratic order in which individuals can overcome the condition of fear that characterizes their relationship with political authority.
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creator: Lemrabott Sneid
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date: 2026-02-01
publication date: 2026-02-01
starting page: 7
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Manifestations of the Hidden: Negative Theology and the Philosophy of Religion
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description: Book Title: Manifestations of the Hidden: Negative Theology and the Philosophy of Religion . Author: Ali Reda. Publisher: Ninawa Publishing House. Date of Publication: 2024. Pages: 558.
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creator: Mostafa Hisham
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
starting page: 125
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Featured Books
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description: David Edmonds, Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025), p. 288. Angie Hobbs, Why Plato Matters Now (London: Bloomsbury Publishing , 2025), p. 240. سري نسيبة، الكَشّاف: أو نحن والفلسفة (عمان: المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر، 2025)، ص248. مشير باسيل عون، الفلسفة الفرنسية المعاصر: اتجاهاتها ومذاهبها وإسهاماتها (المجلد الخامس: الفلسفات الجمالية) (الكويت: دار صوفيا للنشر والتوزيع، 2025)، ص471
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creator: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tabayyun
date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
starting page: 137
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Philosophy and biography
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description: Does the biography of a philosopher have any relevance to assessing their philosophy? After considering and rejecting three distinct treatments of this question, a different answer is articulated here. Distinguishing between the content and approach of a philosophical text, this article argues that biography is relevant to assessing the approach of the text in three ways: in its socio-historical context, its philosophical context, and its personal context in the life of the philosopher. Such a strategy offers new ways of comparing very different texts and assessing them in terms of the aims of the philosopher writing them.
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creator: Paul O'Grady
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
starting page: 85
ending page: 98

Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology
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description: Book Title: Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology . Author: Sari Hanafi. Publisher: Doha/Beirut: Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. Date of Publication: 2025. Pages: 344.
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creator: Michael Medhat
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
starting page: 113
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Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society
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description: Book Title: Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society . Author: Andreas Reckwitz & Hartmut Rosa. Translator: Valentine A. Pakis Publisher: Cambridge: Polity. Date of Publication: 2023. Pages: 224.
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creator: ALi AL-Rawahi
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
starting page: 101
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Philosophical Style and Neutrality: A Critical Reading of Martha Nussbaum’s View
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description: This study addresses the question of neutrality in philosophical style by examining Martha Nussbaum’s thesis, which denies the existence of such neutrality. It argues that philosophical discourse, especially in Plato, is bound up with a specific philosophical way of life. It seeks to determine whether style is merely verbal ornamentation or a constitutive element that supports philosophical content. The first section presents Nussbaum’s justifications for linking style to a Platonic philosophical life in contrast to a tragic way of life. The second section offers a critique of this view drawing on Aristotle and Islamic philosophers, highlighting the independence of demonstrative discourse from wording and emphasizing the need to distinguish between philosophical content and stylistic form.
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creator: Taoufik Faizi
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
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The Philosophy of Emotions between Aristotle and Chrysippus
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description: This paper compares the way Aristotle and the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus conceptualized emotions. Framed in this way, the topic reflects the problematic nature of “emotions” through two antithetical perspectives: that of Chrysippus, who regarded them as negative, harmful to virtue and wisdom, and as corrupt judgements detrimental to our prospects and well-being; and that of fairness and balance articulated by Aristotle, who advocated their practical and social role. This study presents and evaluates the arguments and positions that elucidate each philosopher’s conception of emotions, both in terms of their nature and their relationship to human agency within the external world. To this end, it adopts first an analytical-descriptive methodology to interpret the philosophical stance of both thinkers; and second, a critical comparison, which accords Aristotle a distinct status, in view of the scientific framework he applied to the study of emotions.
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creator: Najib Tabtabe
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
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Nancy Fraser’s Critique of Habermas’s Bourgeois Public Sphere and the Decolonial Challenge
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description: This study explores Habermas’ conception of the public sphere and examines its limitations through Nancy Fraser's critique of its bourgeois essence and its assumptions regarding ethical neutrality and procedural discourse, as well as the resulting gender, class, and racial exclusion. The study questions the compatibility of this conception with the challenges of multiculturalism and mass democracy, and the validity of Fraser's solutions, such as “participatory parity” and competing public spheres (counterpublics). The study adopts a critical methodology that goes beyond Fraser’s critique to problematize the model through an epistemic lens that challenges the hegemony of the epistemology of the colonial North, without abandoning the concept of the public sphere.
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creator: Imed Jmei
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
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Tolerance in African Philosophy: The Ubuntu Paradigm
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description: This study explores the concept of tolerance in African philosophy, drawing on its four key characteristics as identified by philosopher Léopold Sédar Senghor: intuitive knowledge, dialogical engagement, praxis, and universal humanism. It focuses on the philosophy of Ubuntu, which holds that an individual’s humanity is realized through others, and which elevates the values of empathy, dignity, cooperation, and the defence of universal principles. Ubuntu is a communitarian philosophy, rooted in African religious and cultural traditions, that regards the individual as an integral part of the community. The study also examines the experience of Nelson Mandela in reconciliation and forgiveness as a practical embodiment of this philosophy, and compares liberal tolerance, grounded in individualism, with African tolerance, which is based on participation and solidarity. It concludes that Ubuntu offers a positive and effective model of tolerance that extends beyond the African continent.
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creator: Mohamed Zekkari
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date: 2026-11-01
publication date: 2026-11-01
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
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description: Book Title: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science . Author: Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont. Translator: Nageb Alhasadi. Publisher: Doha/Beirut: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Date of Publication: 2025. Pages: 383.
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creator: Khaled Qutb
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tabayyun
date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
starting page: 209
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The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education
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description: Book Title: The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education . Author: Philip Kitcher. Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press. Date of Publication: 2022. Pages: 440.
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creator: Hamdi Abdel Hamid El Sherif
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tabayyun
date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
starting page: 219
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Featured Books
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description: Book reviews prepared by the editorial board: Al-Tayyib Bouazza, The Historian and the Philosopher: Questions of Historiography and the Philosophy of History (Kuwait/Beirut: Nuhud Center for Studies and Research, 2025), 784 pages. Axel Honneth, Our Meager Freedom , translated by Ali Suleiman Al-Rawahi (Sultanate of Oman: Al-Falaq Publishing, 2025), 224 pages. Santiago Zabala, Signs from the future: A philosophy of warnings (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025), p. 256. David Bather Woods, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025), p. 296.
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creator: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
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date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
starting page: 231
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The Invocation of Postmodernism in the Rejection of Political Modernity: A Critical Study of the Contributions of Abd al–Wahhab al–Messiri and Ali Harb
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description: This study examines the employment of postmodern thought in contemporary Arab intellectual discourse, not merely as a tool for critiquing Western modernity, but as a method for rejecting political modernity – namely democracy, citizenship, and human rights. It focuses on two major contributions: that of ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Messiri, representing the conservative trend, who drew on postmodern critiques to justify a return to pre-modern, religious, quasi-medieval forms of governance; and of ʿAli Harb, representing the Westernizing trend, who adopted postmodernism as an epistemological framework for liberating Arab thought yet ultimately reproduced the dilemmas of Western theory without addressing the Arab demand for political modernity. Thus, despite their apparent divergence, both trends converge on hindering the realization of political modernity within the Arab context.
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creator: Rasheed AlHaj Saleh
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date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
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Edward Said and Wael Hallaq: Overlooked Questions in Postcolonial Studies
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description: This study elucidates the significance of Wael Hallaq’s critique of Said’s Orientalism and to clarifies the limits of this critique. Second, it seeks to define the role of Orientalism within his intellectual project. Finally, it analyses the questions raised by Hallaq that have been overlooked in postcolonial studies. The study is underpinned by the following paradox: Hallaq critiques the modernity that produced Orientalism, yet his analysis concludes by defending a modified Orientalism. Conversely, Said focused his critique on Orientalism rather than on modernity and demanded its replacement. The research concludes that Said did not critique modernity, which constrained his critical project. It also finds that while Hallaq's engagement in modifying Orientalism demonstrates the limitations of his critique, it opens theoretical possibilities for interrogating postcolonial studies.
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creator: Rachid Benbih
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date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
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Postmodernism in Moroccan Philosophical Thought: On the Crisis of Reception and Application
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description: This study analyses the reception and impact of postmodern discourse within Moroccan philosophical thought. It problematizes “the legitimacy of inviting the discourse and major questions of postmodernism” into the Moroccan intellectual context which has its own particularities that complicate the employment of that discourse and lead us to wonder what our relationship to it could look like. The study clarifies its philosophical and societal usage, then analyses aspects of the critical reception it has received by scholars who saw the preoccupation with postmodern discourse as nothing more than a sign of the alienation of Arab-Moroccan philosophical thought from its social and political reality. The study concludes by emphasizing the necessity of adjusting our understanding of this discourse and considering it a stage in the evolution of modernity itself, the legitimacy of which rests on the need to continue reflecting on the Arab modernist project.
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creator: Nabil Fazio
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date: 2026-08-01
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The Negativity Crisis of AI Ethics
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description: Despite the great positive potential of AI, the AI ethics community has presented a rather gloomy picture of AI’s ethical implications. This paper examines the negativity within AI ethics through a philosophy of science lens. The prevailing negativity is a result of the particular way the discipline is institutionally organized, which pressures AI ethicists to portray AI in a critical light. As a consequence, the over all picture of AI offered by the AI ethics community is one-sided and negatively biased. We should be skeptical about the negative narrative promoted by AI ethics and explore ways of reforming the system.
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creator: Peter Königs
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date: 2026-08-01
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On Postmodernism in Contemporary Arab Philosophical Thought: An Inquiry into Interpretation, Appropriation, and Renewal
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description: This study asks how contemporary Arab philosophical thought has received postmodern philosophy by examining three interconnected elements: direct and indirect translation, critical and foundational reception, along with an initial analysis of the issues of identity and difference. It attempts to answer three main questions: How has contemporary Arab philosophical thought received postmodern philosophy? How has it employed postmodernism in addressing its own issues? And has postmodernism enabled Arab thought to renew its approaches? The study employs historical and philosophical analysis, revealing the active presence of some concepts of Arab postmodernity.
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creator: Zwawi Beghoura
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tabayyun
date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
starting page: 43
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Postmodern Philosophy in Arab Thought: The Myth of Historical Linearity and the Metaphor of Fire
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description: This paper investigates the ways in which contemporary Arab intellectual discourse has engaged with the notion of postmodernity – a concept whose meanings have varied and often conflicted, even within Western thought. It highlights the divergence between philosophical postmodernity, associated largely with contemporary French theory, and artistic postmodernism, which developed predominantly in the US. The study advances the hypothesis that the linguistic and cultural influence of France has played a significant role in shaping the the Arab Maghreb’s more receptive engagement with French postmodernist thought. In contrast, the intellectual climate of the Arab Mashreq– marked by the predominance of Marxist and nationalist paradigms – has fostered a more critical approach toward postmodernity.
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creator: Khaldoun Nabwani
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date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
starting page: 65
ending page: 90

Two Perspectives On
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description: This study offers a critical reading of the consequences of importing postmodern thought into the Arab context. It demonstrates that postmodern commentary on the relativity of Truth, deconstruction of grand narratives, overcoming the authority of the universal intellect, and scepticism toward human agency are based on modern Western criteria which are not met in partially modernized societies. The study shows that the adoption of postmodern critique in an environment of weak scientific institutions where premodern identities prevail can enfeeble scientific objectivity, justify moral relativism, and reify modes of traditional authority. This study concentrates on the subjects of science and ethics by deconstructing postmodernist arguments regarding scientific discourse and ethical standards. In doing so, the study clarifies the difference between scientific truth and philosophical and religious truth; it also explains the distinction between universal moral values and moral rules, and between morality, theories of morality, and scientific theories.​ Introduction This study engages with postmodernism from the perspective of a presumed “we”, which connects the author with his audience of readers in Arabic language without further definition. Readers may determine the extent to which they belong to this “we”. The aim is not to affirm a national identity, but to emphasize membership in a society whose cultural, political, and civilizational reality differs from that of the stage of development that Western postmodernist thinkers call postmodernity . As the prefix “post-” suggests, the term refers to Western societies that have moved beyond the stage of modernity, which these thinkers associate with industrial capitalism, technological development, the modern state, and the dominance of what they call the Enlightenment narrative and the authority of “universal reason”, among other defining features. The presumed “we”, by contrast, has not moved beyond the modernity thus d…
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creator: Azmi Bishara
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date: 2026-08-01
publication date: 2026-08-01
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La langue de Zemmour
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description: عنوان الكتاب: لغة زمور. عنوان الكتاب في لغته الأصلية: La langue de Zemmour المؤلفة: سيسيل ألدوي. الناشر: باريس: منشورات سوي. سنة النشر: 2022. عدد الصفحات: 60.
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creator: Achraf Tahria
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tabayyun
date: 2025-05-01
publication date: 2025-05-01
starting page: 233
ending page: 241