Vol. 5 No. 016 (2016): Issue 016

غلاف العدد 16 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 16 of Tabayyun (2016) includes the following studies and articles: “Jurji Zaidan and the Arabic Novel: The Literary Institution and the Creation of Arabic Literature” (Driss El khadraoui); “Bilingual Lexicography with Arabic” (Hafid Ismaili Alaoui); “Deconstruction and Secularism: World, Text and Politics of Meaning” (Samia Benakouche); “A Critical Anthology of the Imperial Present in the Thinking of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt” (Mohamed el-Hadi Omari); “The Problem of Values in the Philosophy of Augustine” (Moussa Maireche); “On the Possible Meeting of Strangers: A Reading of Heidegger and Arab Thought [Heidegger et la pensée arabe]” (Mohammed Sabila); “Lahbabi’s Philosophy of Hope and Anxiety: Individualism and Futurism” (Antoine Seif); “The Limits of Academic Discourse on the Vernacular of Moroccan Arabic” (Mohammed Ali Hanachi); “Creativity and Power in the Poetry of the Early Abbasid Era” (Mufleh Huweitat); “Thoughts: Reflections on Pascal’s Pensées” (Mohammed Eldrissi); “On Secularism and Theories of Secularization: Reading Azmi Bishara (Volume II of Part One) [Arabic]” (Wajih Kawtharani); “The Moroccan Educational System in the Midst of Revolutions in Technology and Values” (Zineddine Elhabib).

Published: 2016-11-01

Studies

  • Jurji Zaidan and the Arabic Novel: The Literary Institution and the Creation of Arabic Literature

    Author: Driss El khadraoui
    07-36

    Jirji Zaidan played a critical role in the creation of the cultural milieu of modern Arabic literature, and was influential not only because of the richness of his experience, rooted in the...

  • Bilingual Lexicography with Arabic

    Author: Hafid Ismaili Alaoui
    37-56

    The author provides a broad survey of the various bilingual dictionaries which have Arabic as one language, beginning with the very first lexicons that period in the early Islamic period. The...

  • Deconstruction and Secularism: World, Text and Politics of Meaning

    Author: Samia Benakouche
    57-72

    Concepts may be born in a specific text but they quickly take on a life of their own: to borrow from Gilles Deleuze, they may move between texts, find new life, sometimes prosper and...

  • A Critical Anthology of the Imperial Present in the Thinking of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt

    Author: Mohamed el-Hadi Omari
    73-92

    Déclaration. Ceci n'est pas un manifeste (English title, Declaration: this is Not a Manifesto ) by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, is one of the most significant books to emerge on the...

  • The Problem of Values in the Philosophy of Augustine

    Author: Moussa Maireche
    93-106

    Maireche addresses the question of values in Augustinian philosophy which, despite its centrality to the Philosophy of Man, has remained neglected by scholars. Perhaps the most important aspect...

From the Library

  • On the Possible Meeting of Strangers: A Reading of Heidegger and Arab Thought [Heidegger et la pensée arabe]

    Author: Mohammed Sabila
    197-200

    Heidegger's criticism of Western metaphysics is based on the way that this approach neglected the fundamental question of entities, which Heidegger defines as the essence of nihilism....

  • Lahbabi’s Philosophy of Hope and Anxiety: Individualism and Futurism

    Author: Antoine Seif
    201-209

    This paper draws on a number of sources to elucidate the thinking of Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi. In addition to his work, six texts written by different philosophers are also examined, four of whom...

Book Reviews

  • The Limits of Academic Discourse on the Vernacular of Moroccan Arabic

    Author: Mohammed Ali Hanachi
    109-138

    A review of the various Moroccan academic approaches to understanding the Vernacular of Moroccan Arabic, that is Moroccan spoken Arabic, is provided in this paper. El Hanchi attempts to...

  • Creativity and Power in the Poetry of the Early Abbasid Era

    Author: Mufleh Huweitat
    139-146

    Hweitat provides a detailed review of Creativity and Power in the Poetry of the Early Abbasid Era , by Issa Al-Masri In it, he offers a comprehensive review of the book's chapters and provides a...

  • Thoughts: Reflections on Pascal’s Pensées

    Author: Mohammed Eldrissi
    147-153

    Pascal's Pensées ( Thoughts ) is a seminal text of the modern Western philosophical canon. An understanding of this text is crucial to a grounded knowledge of global philosophical thinking, and...

  • On Secularism and Theories of Secularization: Reading Azmi Bishara (Volume II of Part One) [Arabic]

    Author: Wajih Kawtharani
    155-174

    In his book Religion and Secularism in Historical Context , Azmi Bishara deploys his vast arsenal of deductive reasoning and conceptualization to attempt a "theoretical model to understand the...

  • The Moroccan Educational System in the Midst of Revolutions in Technology and Values

    Author: Zineddine Elhabib
    175-194

    Schools in Morocco were dramatically affected by the global information technology revolution which came with globalization. Tasked with equipping a new generation of Moroccans to take on the...