Vol. 4 No. 013 (2015): Issue 013

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Issue 13 of Tabayyun (2015) includes the following studies and articles: “Critical Approaches to Current Ideas on the Intellectual” (Azmi Bishara); “On Intellectuals and Transformations to Hegemony” (Bensalem Himmich); “The Intellectual and the Military Man” (Khaled Ziyadeh); “French Encyclopédists vs Arab Encyclopédists” (Frédéric Maatouk); “Is There the Need Today for the Intellectual?” (Ali el-Saleh Moula); “The Intellectual in the Arab-Islamic Context: The Question of Political Reform in Morocco at the Beginning of the 20th Centu” (Abdelali Hami al-Din); “Kant and Neo-Kantians” (Fouad Makhoukh); “Toward and Additional Understanding of the Prophetic Discourse” (Mohamed Kharrat); “Report on the Fourth Annual Conference on the Social Sciences and the Humanities 2014/2015” (Brahim Boutchich); ““Unpacking my Library” by Walter Benjamin: A Talk about Book Collecting” (Thaer Deeb); “The Sacred and the Dialectic of Religious and Literary” (Abdel Dayem Salami); “Henri Bergson’s Spiritual Philosophy” (Kamel Tirchi).

Published: 2015-02-01

Studies

  • Critical Approaches to Current Ideas on the Intellectual

    Author: Azmi Bishara
    05-10

    I have in the past dealt extensively with the subject of the intellectual in my discussion of the issue of the intellectual and revolution. This forced me to return to prevailing conceptions...

  • On Intellectuals and Transformations to Hegemony

    Author: Bensalem Himmich
    13-28

    Words like underdevelopment, ineffectiveness, and deprivation continue to permeate the vocabulary of intellectuals and media figures worldwide – labels that are then turned from passing...

  • The Intellectual and the Military Man

    Author: Khaled Ziyadeh
    29-39

    Two capital cities witnessed the onset of modernity: Istanbul and Cairo. Modernity applied to the creation of organized military forces, to the extent that all those employed in educational and...

  • French Encyclopédists vs Arab Encyclopédists

    Author: Frédéric Maatouk
    41-56

    This paper examines the methodologies adopted in the production of the French Encyclopédie by a galaxy of Western thinkers who adhered to the ideas of the Enlightenment in the second half of the...

  • Is There the Need Today for the Intellectual?

    Author: Ali el-Saleh Moula
    57-84

    The central problematic addressed by this paper is the alleged end of an era for the intellectual and the rise of the age of the think tank. In an attempt to investigate the triggers behind this...

  • The Intellectual in the Arab-Islamic Context: The Question of Political Reform in Morocco at the Beginning of the 20th Centu

    Author: Abdelali Hami al-Din
    85-118

    The elite of Moroccan reformists ( ulema ) at the beginning of the 20th century produced a corpus of political texts which expressed new aspirations to reorganize power, and which tried to renew...

  • Kant and Neo-Kantians

    Author: Fouad Makhoukh
    119-132

    This paper deals with Kantian philosophy and its evolution in the history of ideas. It reveals a set of philosophical concepts that emerged post Kant and that revolved around the interpretation...

  • Toward and Additional Understanding of the Prophetic Discourse

    Author: Mohamed Kharrat
    133-146

    mmThis article is an attempt to apply some modern methodologies to structuralist discourse and consider its religious dimensions particularly by means of an anthropological and contemplative...

Reports

  • Report on the Fourth Annual Conference on the Social Sciences and the Humanities 2014/2015

    Author: Brahim Boutchich
    191-201

    ACRPS held its Fourth Annual Conference on the Social Sciences and the Humanities from March 19-21, 2015 at the Palmeraie Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco. The two conference themes and the Arab Prize...

From the Library

  • “Unpacking my Library” by Walter Benjamin: A Talk about Book Collecting

    Author: Thaer Deeb
    149-155

    I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a...

Book Reviews

  • The Sacred and the Dialectic of Religious and Literary

    Author: Abdel Dayem Salami
    159-176

    The nature of the relationship between sacred text and literary text is here examined through a reflection on the extent to which each benefits from the achievement of the other. Comparisons are...

  • Henri Bergson’s Spiritual Philosophy

    Author: Kamel Tirchi
    177-188

    The author attempts to tackle the spiritual philosophy of Henri Bergson which is understood to be a living, inner, instinctive sense that rightly expresses spiritual permanence as an ontological...