Tag: Taha Abderrahmane
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The Gazan Man Against Absolute Evil
The tragedy in Gaza exemplifies what Moroccan philosopher Taha Abdurahmane identifies as “Absolute Evil,” a type of evil from which all other smaller evils emanate. It aims to violate human dignity, freedom, and memory. The struggle against this evil signifies a necessary resistance for humanity.
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Postscript: Dr. Hammou Al-Nakkari’s Interview in Saudi Arabia on Logic, Ibn Taymiyya, Taha Abderrahmane, and Philosophy in the Arab World
Hammou al-Nakkari, a celebrated logician and philosopher (who has written a dozen books related to conceptual mathematics, pre-classical Arabic logic, notions of Tajdid and Taqlid, a dictionary of Sunni kalam terms, an synthesis on Western legal theory and Usul al-Fiqh, a mathematical comparison of Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyya in logic, et bien beaucoup plus), revealed to the Arab…
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The Metaphysics of Palestine
Taha begins his lecture by declaring that political analysts, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists—even if they are pro-Palestine—have engaged in secular violence to Palestine by erasing the ghayb in their analysis of Palestinian history. The world of the unseen—or the ghayb in Quranic idiom—is a critical feature of discussing the land, and by assigning Palestine into…