Vol. 3 No. 009 (2014): Issue 009

غلاف العدد 9 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 9 of Tabayyun (2014) includes the following studies and articles: “Anglo-American Orientalism’s Contribution to the Rise of Regional Studies” (Abdelfattah Naoum); “Jacques Derrida’s Strategy of Deconstruction: Demolish and Build” (Omar Taour); “Problems Surrounding the Institution of a System of Government in the Particularist and Universalist Currents in Modern Islamic Thought” (Rasheed AlHaj Saleh); “The Dilemma of the Islamic Jurist in the Modern Nation State” (Mu’taz al-Khatib); “Zionist Propaganda in Morocco during the Protectorate and Following Independence: Cinema as an Example” (El-Hajj Mohamed al-Nassek); “Edward Said Deconstructing The Imperial Narrative: From the Aesthetics of Representation to the Politics of Representation” (Mohammed Bouazza); “Burhan Ghalioun: From a Critique of the Modern State to the Critique of Contemporary Islamists’ Understanding of the State” (Chamseddin Alkilani); “The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion by Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger” (Abdelbasset al-Ghabiri); “In Between: The Challenge of Writing Fiction and the Horizon of Critical Reading” (Ibrahim Amri); “The Quest for Subject and Meaning in the Novel Valley of Darkness” (Rabah Tabajoune); “Rediscovering the Ottomans by Ilber Ortayli” (Ziad mouna); “Architecture and Arts: The Energy of the Place as a Creative Momentum for the Artist- Report on the Katara Arts Forum” (Aly Afify Aly Ghazi); “Report on the International Conference for Comparative Study and Dialogue of Literatures” (Rachid Yalouh); ““The Paradox of Public Intellectuals” by Eric Hobsbawm” (Fayiz Suyyagh).

Published: 2014-02-01

Studies

  • Anglo-American Orientalism’s Contribution to the Rise of Regional Studies

    Author: Abdelfattah Naoum
    07-28

    This study does not aim to research Orientalism, even from a critical stance, given that the subject has been exhausted over the past century, beginning with the critical perspective, whether by...

  • Jacques Derrida’s Strategy of Deconstruction: Demolish and Build

    Author: Omar Taour
    29-42

    This paper highlights how Jacques Derrida invoked the strategy of deconstruction to carry out a two-fold task in modern philosophical thought, a mission based on demolition and reconstruction....

  • Problems Surrounding the Institution of a System of Government in the Particularist and Universalist Currents in Modern Islamic Thought

    Author: Rasheed AlHaj Saleh
    43-62

    There is no more debated issue in contemporary Islamic thought than that over the possibility of establishing a civil Islamic state or an Islamic democracy that combines Islamic values of...

  • The Dilemma of the Islamic Jurist in the Modern Nation State

    Author: Mu’taz al-Khatib
    63-84

    This paper is based on a central thesis formulated by the author in 2008, and argues that the problems of contemporary Islamic jurisprudence arise from its relationship with the modern nation...

  • Zionist Propaganda in Morocco during the Protectorate and Following Independence: Cinema as an Example

    Author: El-Hajj Mohamed al-Nassek
    85-98

    This contribution starts from the observation that the Zionist movement, from the first Zionist Congress in Basel Switzerland in 1897, was well aware of the importance of cinema for propaganda...

Discussions

  • Edward Said Deconstructing The Imperial Narrative: From the Aesthetics of Representation to the Politics of Representation

    Author: Mohammed Bouazza
    113-120

    This study attempts to clarify the nature of the relationship of power and narrative in novelistic imagination through a reading of Edward Said, whose work represented a turning point in western...

  • Burhan Ghalioun: From a Critique of the Modern State to the Critique of Contemporary Islamists’ Understanding of the State

    Author: Chamseddin Alkilani
    121-129

    Burhan Ghalioun presented a unique discourse on the critique of Arab modernity and the Modern Arab Nation state amidst the major intellectual review imposed by the calamity of June 1967, which...

  • The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion by Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger

    Author: Abdelbasset al-Ghabiri
    131-137

    This short book comprises two lectures given by Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger at the Catholic Academy of Bavaria in Germany. The work was published in German in 2012 under the title The...

  • In Between: The Challenge of Writing Fiction and the Horizon of Critical Reading

    Author: Ibrahim Amri
    139-143

    Rachid Benhaddo, a prominent Moroccan critic, translator, and academic has helped enrich the library of modern literary criticism in Arabic, consolidate it in Moroccan universities, and...

  • The Quest for Subject and Meaning in the Novel Valley of Darkness

    Author: Rabah Tabajoune
    145-152

    This paper considers one of Dr Abdul Malik Mourtadh’s great novels, Valley of Darkness, in which he endeavours to affirm national identity as it tries to consolidate itself in the period of...

  • Rediscovering the Ottomans by Ilber Ortayli

    Author: Ziad mouna
    153-158

    In his non-chronological review of Ottoman state history, in Rediscovering the Ottomans the author makes use of a variety of approaches without giving up the chronological principle.

Reports

  • Architecture and Arts: The Energy of the Place as a Creative Momentum for the Artist- Report on the Katara Arts Forum

    Author: Aly Afify Aly Ghazi
    161-167

    The Cultural Village Foundation Katara in Doha organized a Katara Arts Forum from April 1-2, 2014 entitled "Architecture and Arts: The Energy of the Place as a Creative Momentum for the Artist"...

  • Report on the International Conference for Comparative Study and Dialogue of Literatures

    Author: Rachid Yalouh
    169-170

    To mark the seventh Arab day for comparative literature and dialogue between cultures, and pursuant to the recommendations of the sixth Arab day for comparative literature and dialogue between...

From the Library

  • “The Paradox of Public Intellectuals” by Eric Hobsbawm

    Author: Fayiz Suyyagh
    101-110

    Could a social function for intellectuals -- that is to say, could intellectuals -- have existed before the invention of writing? Hardly. There has always been a social function for shamans,...