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Contemporary Moroccan Thought

On Philosophy, Theology, Society and Culture

Edited by Mohammed Hashas

First comprehensive volume on modern and contemporary Moroccan intellectual history 

Brill Handbook of Oriental Studies Series, November 2024, copyright year 2025, 30 chapters, c. 700 pp.

Hardback ISBN : 978-90-04-51952-7

https://brill.com/display/title/63015

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Includes chapters on prominent Moroccan philosophers, theologians, sociologists, anthropologists, international relations, gender studies, minorities and Jewish Leftists, and literary-cultural studies, like Allal al-Fassi, Mohammed Belhassan Wazzani, Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi, Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Abdellah Laroui, Taha Abderrahmane, Ali Oumlil, Abdessalam Ben Abdelali, Mohammed Waqidi, Mehdi el-Mandjra, Mustapha Benhamza, Ahmed Risouni, Abdessalam Yassine, Fatema Mernissi, Asma Lamrabet, Ahmed Chafiq, Abraham Serfaty, Mohammed Bennis, Abdelfattah Kilito, Abdellatif Laabi, Abdellah Hammoudi, Hassan Rachik, among others.

Pluralism in Islamic Contexts: Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges

Edited by Mohammed Hashas

(Springer, Philosophy and Politics – Critical Explorations Series, 2021).XVIII, 261

ISBN : 978-3-030-66088-8

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This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major Islamic intellectual history by the Sunnis and Shi‘a? How does contemporary Islamic thought treat religious and political diversity in modern nation states and in societies in transition? How is pluralism dealt with in modern major and minor Islamic contexts? How does modern political Islam deal with pluralism in the public sphere? And what are the major internal and external challenges to pluralism in Islamic contexts?

These questions that have become of paramount relevance in religious studies especially during the last three-four decades are answered as critically highlighted in Islamic founding sources, the formative classical sources and how it has been lived and practiced in past and present Islamic majority societies and communities around the world. Case studies cover Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand, besides various internal references to other contexts.

Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Taha Abderrahmane’s Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Mohammed Hashas and Mutaz al-Khatib

(Brill, Studies in Islamic Ethics Series, September 2020), 364 pp

ISBN: 978-90-04-43836-1

Open Access

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Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm explores the emerging ethical theory of the trusteeship paradigm as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane (b. 1944). The volume, with contributions in English and Arabic, examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of ethics and how it permeates various disciplines: philosophy, theology, legal theory, Sufism, moral theory, sociology and anthropology, communication, environment and biomedical ethics. The trusteeship paradigm aims to make ethics the compass of human thinking and action in order to overcome the predicaments humanity faces and realize a more just and balanced world. This makes of it one of the principal and profound ethical theories in Islamic scholarship that engages both classical and modern thought. 

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The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity

(London: Routledge Islamic Studies Series, 2019) 330 p.

Preface: Jocelyne Cesari (Georgetown and Birmingham Univs.)

ISBN: 978-1-1380-9384-3

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Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies in the visibility of anti-Western Islamic discourses of salafi origin, which have monopolized the debate on the "true" Islam, not only among Muslims but also in the eyes of the general population across Europe; these discourses combined with Islamophobic discourses reinforce the so-called incompatibility between the West and Islam.

This book breaks away from this clash between Islam and the West, by arguing that European Islam is possible. It analyzes the contribution that European Islam has made to the formation of an innovative Islamic theology that is deeply ethicist and modern, and it clarifies how this constructed European Islamic theology is able to contribute to the various debates that are related to secular-liberal democracies of Western Europe. Part I introduces four major projects that defend the idea of European Islam from different disciplines and perspectives: politics, political theology, jurisprudence and philosophy. Part II uses the frameworks from three major philosophers and scholars to approach the idea of European Islam in the context of secular-liberal societies: British scholar George Hourani, Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane and the American philosopher John Rawls. The book shows that the ongoing efforts of European Muslim thinkers to revisit the concept of citizenship and political community can be seen as a new kind of political theology, in opposition to radical forms of Islamic thinking in some Muslim-majority countries.

Opening a new path for examining Islamic thought "in and of" Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Islamic Studies, Islam in the West and Political Theology.

Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges

Edited by Mohammed Hashas, Jan Jaap de Ruiter, and Niels V. Vinding

(Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, April 2018) 438 p

Preface: Jorgen S. Nielsen (Birmingham and Copenhagen Univs.)

ISBN: 978-94-62-98383-0

Reviewed by:

Amine El-Yousfi, Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, Journal of Islamic Studies30:3 (2019):446-449.

Anna Grasso, « Mohammed Hashas, Jan Jaap deRuiter, Niels Valdemar Vinding (eds.), Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges », Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 188 | 2019, 336-338.

Yakoob Ahmed, Review of Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges. Edited by Mohammed Hashas. darulfunun ilahiyat 30/1, (June, 2019): 277-287.

Merve Reyhan Kayikci, Journal of Muslims in Europe 9 (2020) 128-130.

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As European Muslims and Muslims in the Middle East diverge, imams in Europe have emerged as major agents of religious authority who shape Islam’s presence in Western societies. This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions concerning the evolving role of imams in Europe. To what extent do imams act as intermediaries between European states and Muslim communities? Do states subsidise imam training? How does institutionalisation of Islam differ between European states?

Islam, State and Modernity: Mohamed Abed Al Jabri and the Future of the Arab World

Edited by Zaid Eyadat, Francesca Corrao, and Mohammed Hashas

(New York: Palgrave, Middle East Today Series, 2018) XXIII 320 p

Preface: Abdou-Filali Ansari (Agha Khan University, London)

ISBN: 978-1-349-95155-0

Reviewed by:

        Tawseef Ahmed Parray, Review of Islam, State and Modernity: Mohamed Abed Al Jabri and the Future of the Arab World, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS, IIIT), 35:3 (2028) 90-92.

   Giovanni Vezzani, al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World: Islam, State, and Modernity, Reset.it, 28 November 2017. 

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This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to one of the most significant Arab thinkers of the late 20th century and the early 21st century: the Moroccan philosopher and social theorist Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. With his intellectual and political engagement, al-Jabri has influenced the development of a modern reading of the Islamic tradition in the broad Arab-Islamic world and has been, in recent years, subject to an increasing interest among Muslims and non-Muslim scholars, social activists and lay men. The contributors to this volume read al-Jabri with reference to prominent past Arab-Muslim scholars, such as Ibn Rushd, al-Ghazali, al-Shatibi, and Ibn Khaldun, as well as contemporary Arab philosophers, like Hassan Hanafi, Abdellah Laroui, George Tarabishi, Taha Abderrahmane; they engage with various aspects of his intellectual project, and trace his influence in non-Arab-Islamic lands, like Indonesia, as well. His analysis of Arab thought since the 1970s as a harbinger analysis of the ongoing “Arab Spring uprising” remains relevant for today's political challenges in the region.

Geopoetica interculturale nel mondo aperto di Kenneth White

(New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) 170 p.

Prefazione di Khalid Hajji (Università Mohammed I, Oujda, MA);

Postfazione di Francesca M. Corrao (Università LUISS di Roma).

ISBN : 978-1-4438-9353-4

Da rivedere:

Michèle Duclos, Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White’s Open World, di Mohammed Hashas ,   The International Institute of Geopoetics , 2017.

Simone Sibilio, La geopoetica interculturale: una nuova analisi del mondo moderno, Reset , 30 gennaio 2018.

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This work introduces Kenneth White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern interdisciplinary and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, wo-man, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. It traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories, aims, and perspectives. Geopoetics is shown here to be a cosmopolitan project for a more open and harmonious world, which buries narrow-mindedness and offers new horizons.

Booklets in Italian

Perché sono ancora musulmano [Why am I Still Muslim?]

traduzione Sabrina Lei (Roma: Tawasul Europe, 2018)  33 p.

ISBN 13: 978-8894948004

 

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Perché sono ancora musulmano 5

L’ universalità religiosa e la permeazione della politica 8

L’ universo dinamico del Corano 12

Muhammad e l’etica del Corano 15

L’ ateismo e la sfida dell’infinito 21

La legge della Shariah non è l’etica della Shariah 26

La competizione tra fondamentalismo religioso e secolare 30

L’articolo è stato pubblicato in lingua inglese sotto il titolo “Why am I still Muslim?”

presso il Critical Muslim 25:2, Values, ed. Ziauddin Sardar (London: Muslim Institute and Hurst, January 2018): https://www.criticalmuslim.io/why-am-i-still-muslim

L’etica islamica nel paradigma di responsabilità di Taha Abderrahmane

[Islamic Ethics in the Trusteeship Paradigm of Taha Abderrahmane]

traduzione Sabrina Lei (Roma: Tawasul Europe, 2018)  53 p.

ISBN 13: 978-8894948318

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Indice

Introduzione

Taha Abderrahmane: cenni biografici

Il nuovo compito della filosofia: porre la “domanda responsabile”

Etica islamica: contributo alla formazione di un ethos della civiltà

L’essenza della modernità: principi e pilastri

Riflessioni conclusive.

 

L’articolo è stato pubblicato in lingua inglese sotto il titolo “Taha Abderrahmane’s Trusteeship Paradigm: Spiritual Modernity and the Islamic Contribution to the Formation of a Renewed Universal Civilization of Ethos,” Oriente Moderno 95 (2015), pp. 45-76.

  1. “Taha Abderrahmane’s Trusteeship Paradigm: Spiritual Modernity and the Islamic Contribution to the Formation of a Renewed Universal Civilization of Ethos,” Oriente Moderno 95 (2015), pp. 67-105. https://doi.org/10.1163/22138617-12340077
  2. “Is European Islam Experiencing an Ontological Revolution for an Epistemological Awakening?” The American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS, previously AJISS), 31:4, Fall 2014, 14-49. https://doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v31i4.279
  3. “Tareq Oubrou’s Geotheology: Sharia of the Minority and the Secularization of European Islamic Thought.” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 34, Issue 4, 2014, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2014.965973
  4. “Abdolkarim Soroush: A Neo-Mu’tazilite that Buries Classical Islamic Political Theology,” Studia Islamica 109 (2014) pp. 147-173. https://doi.org/10.1163/19585705-12341297
  5. “Reading Abdennour Bidar: New Pathways for European Islamic Thought,” Journal of Muslims in Europe (JOME), 2:1, Autumn 2013, pp. 45-76. https://doi.org/10.1163/22117954-12341258
  1. The Political Theology of Taha Abderrahmane: Religion, Secularism, and Trusteeship,” in Islamic Political Theology, eds., Massimo Campanini and Marco di Donato (New York and London: Lexington Books, 2021), pp. 113-133.
  2. “Il diritto arabo alla differenza filosofica: il concetto di gioventù risvegliata nella filosofia politica di Taha Abderrahmane”, in Islam in International Affairs: Politics and Paradigms , eds. Nassef Manabilang Adiong, Raffaele Mauriello e Deina Abdelkader (serie di libri Routledge, Wordling Beyond the West, 2019), pp. 39-61.
  3. “L’Islam europeo pensa?” in Niels Valdemar Vinding, et al., eds., Exploring the Moltitude of Muslims in Europe: Essays in Honor of Jorgen S. Nielsen (Leiden: Brill, aprile 2018) pp. 35-49.
  4. “Introduzione – Imam in Europa occidentale”, in Hashas, ​​et al., eds., Imam in Europa occidentale: autorità, formazione e sfide istituzionali (Amsterdam UP, in arrivo ad aprile 2018) pp. 19-37.
  5. “The European Imam: A Nationalized Religious Authority”, in M. Hashas, ​​eds., et al., Imams in Western Europe: Authority, Training, and Institutional Challenges (Amsterdam UP, aprile 2018) pp. 79-101.
  6. “Critica e cambiamento: Al-Jabri nel pensiero arabo contemporaneo”, in Eyadat Z., Corrao F., Hashas M. (a cura di) Islam, Stato e modernità Mohammed Abed al-Jabri e il futuro del mondo arabo (New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) 1-21.
  7. “Lo Stato possibile arabo: da al-Tahtawi ad al-Jabri”, in Z. Eyadat, FM Corrao, M. Hashas, ​​eds. Islam, Stato e modernità: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri e il futuro del mondo arabo (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) pp. 271-302.
  8. “Le subalterne sovvertite: una lettura di Leila Abu Zeid e Fatema Mernissi”, in I sogni di trasgressione di Fatema: infrangere i confini del femminismo islamico , ed. Najib Mokhtari (Rabat: Publications of the International University of Rabat, 2017) pp. 281-314.
  9. “Pluralismo all’interno dell’Islam europeo: secolarizzazione della teologia, sacralizzazione della modernità”, in Carmela Decaro, a cura di, The Legal Treatment of Religious Claims in Multicultural Societies (Roma: LUISS UP, 2015) pp. 67-86.
  10. “Giovani musulmani nei Paesi Bassi: capire Tariq Ramadan”. Co-autore con Jan Jaap de Ruiter, in Martina Topic e Srdjan Sremac, eds. L’Europa come modernità multipla: molteplicità di identità e appartenenze religiose  (New Castle: Cambridge Publishing Scholars, 2014) pp. 149-193.
  1. Chi-Chung Yu, Thinking between Islam and the West: The Thoughts of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Bassam Tibi, and Tariq Ramadan, 2014, Journal of Muslims in Europe 7 (2018), 1-3.
  2. Joselyne Cesari, Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies, 2013, in Journal of Muslims in Europe 3 (2014) 235-244.
  3. Jonathan Laurence, The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims, Feb. 2014, in Arabic, Mominoun Without Borders Foundation for Research (online).
  4. Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State, Columbia UP, 2013 (Jan. 2014, in Arabic, Mominoun Without Borders Foundation for Research (online).
  5. Jean-Pierre Filiu,The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising, Oxford University Press, 2011, Plurilogue Politics and Philosophy Reviews (online), October 2013
  6. Abdennour Bidar, Comment sortir de la religion (How to Overcome Religion), 2012 – for Plurilogue Politics and Philosophy Reviews (online), January 2013
  7. Anna Triandafyllidou, et al. eds. European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges, 2012, JOME, Journal of Muslims in Europe, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp 212 –214
  8. Tariq Ramadan: The Quest for Meaning: Towards a Philosophy of Pluralism, 2010, Plurilogue Politics and Philosophy Reviews (online), October 2011.

“Moroccan Exceptionalism Examined: Constitutional Insights pre- and- post 2011,” International Affairs Institute IAI, Working Paper 1334, 10 Dec. 2013, pp. 18.(ISBN 978-88-98650-05-7 ; ISSN 2280-8331)

  • “Geopoetics Call,” in Ziauddin Sardar, ed., Critical Muslim 19: Nature (London: Hurst and Muslim Institute, 2016) 72-90.
  • “The American Proto-Geopoetician: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and Kenneth White: The Euramerasian,” On Line Journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Issue 1, Jan. 12.
  • 05-7 ; ISSN 2280-8331)

  1. Risāla fi addawla al-i’timāniyya aw dawlat al-thiqa min ajli ‘ālam ‘arabī jadīd – subul al-khurūj min al-‘aql al-tajzī’ī [A Treatise on Trust State for a New Arab World: Pathways for Overcoming Dichotomous Thought], Namaa Center for Research and Studies (Beirut), N. 134: February 2017, pp. 1-16.

  1. Al-islām al-ūrupī mina al-fahm ilā al-mafhūm [European Islam: From Comprehension to Conceptualization] Namaa Center for Research and Studies (Beirut) 92: 2016, pp. 1-17.

  2. Al-imāma fī ūrupa al-gharbiyya: khidma dīniyya fī siyyāq lībirālī-‘ilmānī [The Imamate in Western Europe: A Religious Service in a Secular-Liberal Context], in al-islām fī ūrupā: ishkāliyyāt al-indimāj wa taḥaddiyyāt al-irhāb [The Imamate in Western Europe: A Religious Service in a Secular-Liberal Context], in al-islām fī ūrupā: ishkāliyyāt al-indimāj wa taḥaddiyyāt al-irhāb [Islam in Europe: Integration Issues and the Challenge of Terrorism] (Dubai: Almesbar Studies and Research Center, Vol. 112, 2016) pp. 33-49.

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