ABDUR-RAHMAN BADAWI – REVIVAL OF ARABIC PHILOSOPHY AND ITS LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY AGE

Authors

  • Orhan Bajraktarević Fakultet islamskih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v22i85.1843

Keywords:

Abdur-Rahman Badawi, Arabic-Islamic philosophy, new interpretation, Arabic world, contemporary Europe

Abstract

UDK 1 Badawi A. 28-1

Abdur-Rahman Badawi is one of the most distinguished philosophers and thinkers of contemporary Arabic and Muslim world. He is a philosopher and a scholar of a novel revival of philosophical heritage of Arabs today, he is also a philosopher and a scholar of an innovative reading and a new interpretation of Arabic-Islamic philosophy which begins with ancient Greece through Islamic and Christian medieval age to contemporary Europe and the modern Arabic world. He left behind a remarkable opus of 120 works in Arabic and French languages comprising of research works in the field of philosophy, comparative philosophies work and fine literature all wielded in the most systematic and precise manner which reflects his learnedness, his life and the age in which he wrote. His works established not a clash of cultures and civilisations, but new relations and fresh mutual understanding between cultures and traditions of the Arabic East and the European West today. 

Published

12-04-2021

How to Cite

Bajraktarević, O. (2021). ABDUR-RAHMAN BADAWI – REVIVAL OF ARABIC PHILOSOPHY AND ITS LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY AGE. Novi Muallim, 22(85), 16–20. https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v22i85.1843