Islamic enlightenment and the paradox of averroes

Welt des Islams

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 379-390

  Wild, Stefan ^a  

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DOI: 10.1163/1570060962597409     Document Type: Review

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1. This first section is at the same time a review of Anke von Kügelgen, Averroes & die arabische Moderne. Ansatze zu einer Neubegründung des Rationalismus im Islam, Leiden, New York, Köln 1994
2. (= Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science, Texts and Studies, ed. by H. Daiber and D. Pingree, vol. XIX), ix + 463 pp., ISSN 0169- 8729, ISBN 90 04 09955-7.
3. A condensed version of the main points of this study can be found in: A. von Kugelgen, "Averroisten' im 20. Jahrhundert-Zur Ibn Rushd Rezeption in der arabischen Welt" in: F. Niewôhner & L. Sturlese (edd.), Averroismus im Mittelalter und in der Renaissance, Zurich 1994, 351ff.
4. For a detailed analysis, see Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought: The Classic, Scholastic and Humanist Strains vol. II, New York 1965, 112ff.
5. Paris 1852, 2ème éd. 1861. 3ème éd. revue et augmentée, Paris 1866; also: Ernest Renan, Oeuvres Completes, Paris 1949.
6. This quotation comes from the well-known lecture published in the Parisian Journal des Débats of 29 March 1883, reprinted in an appendix to Renan's "L'islamisme et la science" in id., Discours et Conferences, Paris 1887, 402-409
7. cf. also Ernest Renan, "Der Islam und die Wissenschaft", Vortrag, gehalten in der Sorbonne am 29. Marz 1883, Basel 1883, p. 18f. here quoted according to Felix KleinFranke, Die Klassische Antike in der Tradition des Islam, Darmstadt 1980, 122; see also Elie Kedourie, Afghani and 'Abduh. An Essay on Religious Unbelief and Political Activism in Modern Islam, London 1966, 41 and fn. 131. This lecture was then commented upon byJamalaldin al-Afghani in Journal des Débats of 18 May 1883.
8. Kedourie, Afghani and 'Abduh 42
9. cf. W. Ende, "Waren Gamaladdin al-Afgani und Muhammad 'Abduh Agnostiker?" in: ZDMG Supplementa I: XVII.
10. Deutscher Orientalistentag vom 21. his 27. Juli 1968 in Würzburg, Wiesbaden 1969, 654ff.
11. Cf. also Lord Cromer's verdict on Muhammad 'Abduh in: JJ.G. Jansen, "'I suspect that my friend Abdu (...) was in reality an Agnostic" in: Acta Orientalia Neerlandica, Proceedings of the Congress of the Dutch Oriental Society ... Leiden 8th-9th May 1970, ed. by P.W. Pestman, Leiden 1971, 71-74
12. see also Menahem Milson, "The Elusive Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani" in: MW 58 (1968) 295-307.
13. Enzyklopadie des Islam, 1st ed., s.v. al-Afghani, reprinted in H.A.R. Gibb & J.H. Kramers (edd.), Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam, 85.
14. Kedourie, Afghani 45.
15. Kedourie, ibid., 45f., fnn. 138-141.
16. A. Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939, Oxford, 1970 p. 163
17. von Kugelgen 103.
18. Further examples of this dating: H.H. Schaeder, "Der Eintritt der Araber in die Weltgeschichte" in: id., Der Mensch in Orient und Okzident. Grundzuge einer eurasiatischen Geschichte, München 1960, 214
19. another article of Schaeder's with the same basic line "Der Orient und das griechische Erbe" (ibid. 107ff.)
20. had beenmade known in the Arab world by a translation into Arabic done by 'Abdalrahman Badawi: '211-naz 'a al-insaniyya ft l-fikr al-'arabt "in: id., al-Insaniyya wa-l-wujadiyya ft l-fikr al-'arabt (=Dirasdt islamiyya 4, Cairo 1947) 3-64
21. id., Rüh al-haddra al-'arabiyya (= Dirasat islamiyya 10, Beirut 1949).
22. Cf. also Jôrg Kraemer, Das Problem der islamischen Kulturgeschichte, Tübingen 1959, 6, 26f. and the examples quoted by von Kugelgen 9 fn. 48.
23. Tilman Nagel, Die Festung des Glaubens. Triumph and Scheitern des islamischen Rationalismus im 11 .Jahrhundert, München 1988, 357.
24. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Naqd al-khitdb al-dim, Cairo 1994, 86.
25. Neither inhi(at nor nahda is mentioned in the analyses of Arabic political terminology by Helga Rebhan, Geschichte und Funktion einiger politischer Tennini des 19. Jahrhunderts (1798-1882), Wiesbaden 1988
26. Ami Ayalon, Language and Change in the Arab Middle East. The Evolution of Modern Arabic Political Discourse, New York-Oxford 1987.
27. See Yusuf As'ad Daghir, Masddir al-dirasat aI-adabiyya. AI-fikr al- 'arabi alhadtthJi siyar a 'lamih, vol. III al-Rähilün, part 1, Beirut 1972
28. (= Manshürat al-jami'a al-lubnaniyya, qism al-dirasat al-adabiyya) 488-493
29. Ya'qub al-'Audat (= al-Badawi alMulaththam), Mm a 'lam aI-fikr wa-l-adab ft Filastin, Amman 1976, 244-250
30. Bayan Nuwayhid al-Hut, al-Qfyadat wa-I-mu 'assasdt aI-siyasiyyafl Filasttn 1917-1948, Beirut 1981, index.
31. See Werner Ende, Arabische Nation und islamische Geschichte. Die Umayyaden im Urteil arabischer Autoren des 20.Jahrhunderts, Beirut 1977 (= Beiruter Texte und Studien 20), 29 fun. 4 and 5.
32. 111929-1939, London 1977, 38.
33. It was this translation which inspired Emile Habibi's satirical novel Alwaqa 'i' al-gharzbafi khtfa' Sa 7d Abt l-Nahs al-Mutasha 'ii, Haifa 1974, 2nd ed. Beirut 1974, 97 fn. 2
34. English translation: Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, transl. from the Arabic by Salma Khadra al-Jayyusi and Trevor LeGassick, London 1985.
35. See Abdo Abboud, Deutsche Romane im arabischen Orient. Eine komparatistische Untersuchung zur Rezeption von Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse und Franz Kafka. Mit einem (Jberblick hber die Rezeption der deutschen Literatur in der arabischen Welt, Frankfurt/M., 1984, 28f.
36. Ddr Iiya' al-kutub al- 'arabiyya, 486 pp.
37. Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Transl. from the Arabic by Franz Rosenthal, 2nd ed. New York 1967, vol. III, ilif.
38. See Kristina Bergmann, Filmkultur und Filmindustrie in Agypten, Darmstadt 1993, index.
39. Interview with Yussef Chahine in the daily A1-Haydt, 14 March 1996, 22.
40. Nar Hamid Abu Zayd during the debate over his book MaJhüm al-nan was compared in the Egyptian press with Ibn Rushd as well as with Galileo Galilei; cf. Navid Kermani, "Die Afrnre Abu Zayd. Eine Eritik am religiösen Diskurs und ihre Folgen," in: Orient 35 (1994) 25-49, p. 42.
41. Averroès, 2ême éd., 89, -6.