Vol. 6 No. 024 (2018): Issue 024

غلاف العدد 24 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 24 of Tabayyun (2018) includes the following studies and articles: “On the Subject: From Hegel to Kierkegaard” (Chabha Bouarab); “Stained Glass in Arab Civilization and the Interplay between Painted Images and Text: the Case of Pre-colonial Tunisia” (Khélil Gouia); “The Nation of the Two Palm Trees: Arab Identity as a Contextual Phenomenon” (Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti); “Towards a Common Universal Ethic: Putnam, Habermas, and Taha Abdurrahman” (Abdelkader Mellouk); “Explaining the Relegation of the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in the Arab Region” (A. Z. Obiedat); “On Meta-Bioethics: Towards an Ontological Interpretation and Ethic for the Bodily Human Existence” (Moulay Ahmed Moulay Abdelkarim); “Book Review: Yousef Ben Adi’s Review of Mohammed Al-Mesbahi’s The Self in Arab-Islamic Thought” (Yusuf bin Uday); “Book Review: Ahmad Moufleh takes on Palestinian Periodicals Published in Lebanon from 1948 to 2014: a Bibliographic Study” (Ahmad Moufleh).

Published: 2018-11-01

Studies

  • On the Subject: From Hegel to Kierkegaard

    Author: Chabha Bouarab
    07-25

    kierkegaard’s theory of the “subject” was merely an attempt by the Danish philosopher to undo the Hegelian vision of the subject; to save Hegelian philosophy from itself. This paper tries to...

  • Stained Glass in Arab Civilization and the Interplay between Painted Images and Text: the Case of Pre-colonial Tunisia

    Author: Khélil Gouia
    27-69

    This article explores the relationship between images and written texts in the pre-colonial Arab tradition of Tunisia, by focusing specifically on the art of stained glass. To this end, the role...

  • The Nation of the Two Palm Trees: Arab Identity as a Contextual Phenomenon

    Author: Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti
    71-95

    This paper aims to provide a theoretical underpinning for a revitalized Arab identity. It defines Arab identity as a strictly relative phenomenon which cannot be stripped out of its wider...

  • Towards a Common Universal Ethic: Putnam, Habermas, and Taha Abdurrahman

    Author: Abdelkader Mellouk
    97-120

    This paper explores three different ethical theories rooted in different cultures and determined by distinct intellectual systems. These models or approaches were put forward by Putnam, Habermas...

  • Explaining the Relegation of the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in the Arab Region

    Author: A. Z. Obiedat
    121-143

    Marginalizing Arab world workers in the humanities, social sciences, and Arts is problematic. The history of the division of labor in the social “pyramid scheme” is introduced, arguing that...

  • On Meta-Bioethics: Towards an Ontological Interpretation and Ethic for the Bodily Human Existence

    Author: Moulay Ahmed Moulay Abdelkarim
    145-163

    This paper tackles some of the ethical considerations related to the broad question of bioethics. Throughout the research, the assumption is made that bioethics is founded on clear philosophical...

Book Reviews

  • Book Review: Yousef Ben Adi’s Review of Mohammed Al-Mesbahi’s The Self in Arab-Islamic Thought

    Author: Yusuf bin Uday
    167-172

    Mohammed Mesbahi’s The Self in Arab-Islamic Thought has accomplished two important feats. The first is illustrating the author’s ability to bring the writings of a wide range of Sufi mystics and...

  • Book Review: Ahmad Moufleh takes on Palestinian Periodicals Published in Lebanon from 1948 to 2014: a Bibliographic Study

    Author: Ahmad Moufleh
    173-179

    It is rare to come across a book which grips the reader from its very beginning, but Ahmad Taleb’s Palestinian Periodicals Published in Lebanon from 1948 to 2014: a Bibliographic Study is one...