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Autobiography of Mohammed Arkoun Mohammed
Arkoun was born in Taourirt-Mimoun, a town in Grande Kabylie in Algeria. He
spent his primary education in Taourirt-Mimoun and his secondary education in
Oran. He majored in philosophy in Algeria and France at the University of
Sorbonne. He lectured Arabic language in Paris in 1956, and he attained his
PhD in philosophy at the University of Sorbonne in 1968. From 1961-1991, Dr.
Arkoun was a lecturer at Sorbonne and a visiting lecturer at the following
universities: ·
Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin
1977-1979)
· Prinston University (USA 1992-1993)
·
Los Angeles (1969) · Prinston
(1985) · Lofan
Laneef (1977-1979) · Pontificial
d’ Etudes Arabes (Rome) · Philadelphia
(1988-1990) · Amsterdam
(1991-1993) · New
York university (2001-2003) · Edinburgh-Gifford
Lectures (2001) · An
advisor on Islamic Studies at the Congress library since 2000. Lectures and Conferences
Dr.
Mohammed Arkoun attended conferences and lectured at the following: Rabat,
Fas, Casablanca, Aljadeedah, Safi, A’nnabah, Talmasan, Jardayah, Wahran,
Tunis, Cairo, Tabrak, Tripoli, Beirut, Damascus, Halab, Amman, Baghdad,
Almadeenah Elmonawarah, Reyad, San’a’, Masqat (Oman), Al Manamah (Bahrain),
Kuwait, Zinjibar, Mumbasa, Dakar, Tahran, New Delhi, Bombay, Peking, Jakarta,
Samarqand, Moscow, Helsinki, Turku, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, London,
Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Tal Burj, Brussels,
Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Heidelberg, Burn, Zurich, Geneva, Turin, Rome,
Napoli, Barcelona, Madrid, Qurtoba, Granada, New York, Boston, Washington,
Chicago, Miami, Houston, Denver, Birkly, San Diego, Los Angeles, Montreal,
Toronto, Pisa, Venice etc etc. Occupation and current activities
Dr.
Mohammed Arkoun is a retired lecturer at the Sorbonne. He is also a member
and a visiting lecturer at the board of directors in the Islamic Institute in
London. In addition to that, he is scientific director at the Magazine
ARABICA (Brill, Leiden) since 1980. He is on the board of directors of the
arbitration committee for Aga Khan d’Architecture between 1989-1998. From
1995 to 1998 he was member of the High Council for Family and population.
Between 1990 and 1998 he was member of the National Committee for Ethics,
Philosophy of Life (Weltanschauung) and Health. In 2002, he was a member of
the international jury of the UNESCO Prize for the promotion of peace and a
member of the arbitration committee for the Arabic/French prize in 2002,
which was established by the Arab ambassadors in France. He ist member of the
scientific council of the International Centre for the Study of the People of
Byblos (Lebanon). He is a member of the committee for laicism in France
(2003). Prizes and Trophies
Officer of Ehrenlegion, Officer of Palmes académiques. Lévi Della Vida for Middle
Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 2002 Honourary Doctor from the
University of Exeter Publication by the writer Arkoun
In English:
- Arab
Thought, éd. S.Chand, New-Delhi 1988; - Rethinking Islam : Common questions, Uncommon answers,
today, Westview Press, Boulder 1994. - The
concept of Revelation: from Ahl al-Kitâb to the Societies of the Book-book, Claremont Graduate School, Ca.,1988; - The
Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought, London 2002. in Arabic:
-
Al-Fikr al-'arabiyy, éd.'Uwaydat, Beyrouth 1979; - Al-Islâm:
Asâla wa Mumârasa, Beyrouth 1986; - Ta'rîkhiyyat
al-fikr al-'arabiyy al-islâmiyy, éd.Markaz al-inmâ' al-qawmiyy, Beyrouth
1986; -
Al-Fikr al-islâmiyy: Qirâ'a 'ilmiyya, éd. Markaz..., 1987; - Al-islâm:
al-Akhlâq wal-Siyâsa, éd. Markaz..., 1988; -
Al-Islâm: Naqd wa-jtihâd,
éd. Dâr al-Sâqî, Beyrouth 1990; - Al-'almana wa-l-dîn, Dâr
al-Sâqî 1990; - Mina-l-ijtihâd ilâ naqd al-'aql
al-islâmî, Dâr al-Sâqî 1991; - Min Faysal al-Tafriqa ilâ
Fasl-al-Maqâl: Ayna huwa-l-Fikr al-islâmiyy al-mu‘âsir, Dâr al-Sâqî 1993;
- Al-Islâm, Urubbâ, wal-Gharb:
Rihânât al-ma'nâ wa Irâdât
al-Haymana, Dâr al-Sâqî 1995; - Naz‘at al-Ansana fî-l-fikr
al-‘arabiyy, Dâr al-Sâqî 1997 ; - Qadâyâ fî Naqd
al-Fikr al-dînî, Dâr al-Talî‘a, Beyrouth 1998 ; - Al-Fikr al-usûlî wal-stihâlat
al-Ta’sîl, Dâr al-Sâqî 1999. - Ma‘ârik min
ajli-l-ansana fî-l-siyâqât al-islâmiyya, Dâr al-sâqî, 2001. - Min al-Tafsîr
al-mawrûth ilâ tahlîl al-khitâb al-dînî, Dâr al-Talî‘a, Beyrouth 2001.
in French:
- Deux Epîtres de Miskawayh, édition critique,
B.E.O, Damas, 1961 ; - Aspects de la pensée islamique
classique, IPN, Paris 1963; - L'humanisme arabe au 4e/10e
siècle, J.Vrin, 2°éd. 1982; - Traité d'Ethique, Trad.,
introd., notes du Tahdhîb al-akhlâq de Miskawayh, 1e
éd.1969; 2e éd.1988; - Essais sur la pensée islamique,
1e éd. Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris 1973; 2e éd.
1984; - La Pensée arabe, 1e
éd. P.U.F., Paris 1975; 6e éd. 2002; Trad. en arabe, anglais,
espagnol, suédois, italien ; - L'islam,
hier, demain, 2e éd. Buchet-Chastel, Paris 1982; trad. arabe,
Beyrouth 1983; - L'islam, religion et société,
éd. Cerf, Paris 1982; version italienne, RAI 1980; - Religion et laïcité: Une approche
laïque de l'islam, L'Arbrelle, Centre Thomas More, 1989; - Lectures du Coran, 1e éd.
Paris 1982; 2e Aleef, Tunis 1991; - Ouvertures sur l'islam, 1e éd. J.
Grancher 1989; - L’islam. Approche critique, Le
livre du mois, Club du livre 2002 - Pour une critique de la Raison
islamique, Paris 1984; - L'islam, morale et politique, UNESCO-Desclée 1986; - Combats pour l’Humanisme en contextes
islamiques, Paris 2002 - The
Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought, London 2002. - De Manhattan à
Bagdad: Au-delà du Bien et du Mal, Paris 2003 in Dutch:
- Islam in Discussie, 24 vragen
over de islam, éd. Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam 1993; - Islam & De Democratie; Een
ontmoeting, en collaboration avec Frits Bolkestein, Uitgeverij Contact,
Amsterdam 1994. -Plusieurs articles et interviews dans Revues et journaux
néerlandais.. in Indonesian:
- Nalar islami dan nalar modern:
Berbagai Tantangan dan jalan Baru, trans. Johan H. Meuleman, INIS,
Jakarta 1994. - Berbagai Pembacaan Quran,
trans. Johan
H. Meuleman, INIS, Jakarta 1997, 256 p. |