Abdallah Laroui

Abdallah Laroui (Arabic: عبدالله العروي‎; born 7 November 1933) is a Moroccan philosopher, historian and novelist writing in Arabic and French. [1][2]

Moroccan literature
Moroccan writers
  • Novelists
  • Playwrights
  • Poets
  • Essayists
  • Historians
  • Travel writers
  • Sufi writers
  • Moorish writers
Forms
  • Novel
  • Poetry
Criticism and awards
See also
  • Morocco Portal
  • Literature Portal

Laroui is considered one of the leading Arab philosophers since the 1960s. His philosophical project has been expressed in books on historicity, history, ideology, liberty, and reason. He has influenced a generation of scholars since his appearance on the Arab intellectual scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with a famous first text on modern Arab ideology.

Born in Azemmour, Laroui taught at the University Mohammed V in Rabat until 2000. He has also written five novels (o.a. L'Exil (Sindbad-Actes Sud, 1998)).[3]

Awards and honors

In 2017 he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for "Cultural Personality of the Year",[4][5] the premier category with a prize of 1 million dirhams.

Works
  • Les Carnets d'Idriss, 2008
  • Le Maroc et Hassan II, 2005
  • Islam et Histoire : essai d'épistémologie, Albin Michel, 1999
  • Islam et modernité, La Découverte, 1986
  • L'Histoire du Maghreb : un essai de synthèse, Librarie Francois Maspero, 1970
  • La Crise des intellectuels arabes : traditionalisme ou historicisme ?, La Découverte, 1978
  • Les Origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain (1830-1912), Paris, 1977
  • L'Idéologie arabe contemporaine 1967 - La Découverte, 1982
In translation
  • The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? (1976) (ISBN 0-520-02971-2)
  • The History of the Maghreb: An Interpretive Essay, Ralph Manheim, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977).

See also

References
  1. Jean Jacques Waardenburg, Islam: historical, social, and political perspectives, Walter de Gruyter, 2002, p.145-147
  2. Youssef M. Choueiri, Arab history and the nation-state: a study in modern Arab historiography, Routledge, 1989, p.165
  3. Salim Jay, Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains, Eddif, 2005 , pp 243-244
  4. "Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Abdallah Laroui "Cultural Personality of the Year"". Sheikh Zayed Book Award website. 5 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  5. "Laroui named Cultural Personality of the Year". Gulf News. 5 April 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017.


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