Vol. 3 No. 012 (2015): Issue 012

غلاف العدد 12 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 12 of Tabayyun (2015) includes the following studies and articles: “How the Concept of Political Freedom is Absent from the Historical Thinking and Experience of Muslims” (Abderrahim Allam); “The Possible and the Impossible in Nietzsche’s Worldview” (Tafrout Lehsan); “Law and Religion in Montesquieu’s Philosophy” (Brahim Mjidila); “What is the Likelihood of the Production of a Tunisian Islamism? A Study of the Challenges” (Ali el-Saleh Moula); ““Heidegger’s Philosophy” by Françoise Dastur” (Mohammed Sabila); “Isaiah Berlin’s Critique of Enlightenment” (Ibrahim Tolba Abdel Khalek); “A New Vision of Arab Panegyric Poetry” (Mohammed Obeidallah); “Confessions of a Young Novelist” (Said Benkrad).

Published: 2015-11-01

Studies

  • How the Concept of Political Freedom is Absent from the Historical Thinking and Experience of Muslims

    Author: Abderrahim Allam
    07-27

    Renowned Moroccan historian Ahmed al-Nasiri states, "Know that this freedom created by the Europeans in these years is total atheism, because it absolutely requires the inversion of God's...

  • The Possible and the Impossible in Nietzsche’s Worldview

    Author: Tafrout Lehsan
    29-48

    This study tries to move away from the current logical approach to the theory of "possible worlds", in an attempt to investigate the subject according to Nietzsche. It starts with the author's...

  • Law and Religion in Montesquieu’s Philosophy

    Author: Brahim Mjidila
    49-62

    The legacy of Montesquieu, one of the key philosophers of the Enlightenment, is remarkably diverse. In 1721 he published Persian Letters ; in 1734 Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness...

  • What is the Likelihood of the Production of a Tunisian Islamism? A Study of the Challenges

    Author: Ali el-Saleh Moula
    63-89

    This paper seeks to achieve two things: the first is synthetic, and aims to combine the facts of political, cultural, and religious reality and make connections and links between them to aid the...

From the Library

  • “Heidegger’s Philosophy” by Françoise Dastur

    Author: Mohammed Sabila
    93-116

    A few days before his death, Heidegger chose the following expression as the best testimony to all his works: "Avenues, not compositions." By this he wanted to indicate to his future readers...

Book Reviews

  • Isaiah Berlin’s Critique of Enlightenment

    Author: Ibrahim Tolba Abdel Khalek
    119-152

    Isaiah Berlin started his academic work as a philosopher in Oxford, and gained renown as a historian of ideas. He was clearly influenced in Oxford by Austin, Ayer, Hampshire, MacKinnon, and...

  • A New Vision of Arab Panegyric Poetry

    Author: Mohammed Obeidallah
    153-166

    Suzanne Stetkevych writes with profound methodological tools and a spirit of love for Arabic poetry and Arab-Islamic culture to which she has devoted her academic career, even though it is not...

  • Confessions of a Young Novelist

    Author: Said Benkrad
    167-171

    French publishing house Grasset has brought out a new book by Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco entitled Confessions of a Young Novelist . This is a special book in that it does not...