Post-Enlightenment of Leibowitz and al-Jaberi: Philosophy and Religion

TY - JOUR

T1 - Post-Enlightenment of Leibowitz and al-Jaberi

T2 - Philosophy and Religion

AU - Sabih, Joshua

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The issue of the relation between religion and philosophy has re-sur- faced in modern Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Muslim philosophical discourses. Facing unprecedented waves of re-traditionalisation and radicalisation in both Israel and Arab-Muslim societies this issue has become a privileged terrain upon which many ideological, cultural and political “wars” have been waged. In this paper, I shall focus on how two prominent philosophers and public thinkers, Leibowitz (d. 1994) and al-Jaberi (d. 2010), have brought the issue of the relation between faith and reason – and with it critical thinking – back to centre stage by engaging both their own philosophical and theological traditions and European philosophical thought. 

AB - The issue of the relation between religion and philosophy has re-sur- faced in modern Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Muslim philosophical discourses. Facing unprecedented waves of re-traditionalisation and radicalisation in both Israel and Arab-Muslim societies this issue has become a privileged terrain upon which many ideological, cultural and political “wars” have been waged. In this paper, I shall focus on how two prominent philosophers and public thinkers, Leibowitz (d. 1994) and al-Jaberi (d. 2010), have brought the issue of the relation between faith and reason – and with it critical thinking – back to centre stage by engaging both their own philosophical and theological traditions and European philosophical thought. 

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Double-Critique, Islam, Judaism, Law, Philosophy, Post-Enlightnment

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1901-9580

VL - 10

SP - 225

EP - 248

JO - Tidsskrift for Islamforskning

JF - Tidsskrift for Islamforskning

IS - 1

ER -