Abdallah Laroui
{{Short description|Moroccan philosopher, historian, and novelist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Abdallah Laroui
| doctoral_advisor = Henri Laoust
| thesis_title = Les Origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain, 1830-1912
| thesis_year = 1976
| birth_date = 1933
| birth_place = Azemmour, Morocco
| image = Abdallah Laroui, 2005.jpg
}}{{Moroccan literature}}
Abdallah Laroui ({{langx|ar|عبدالله العروي|ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻArawī}}; born 7 November 1933) is a Moroccan philosopher, historian, and novelist. Besides some works in French, his philosophical project has been written mostly in Arabic. He is among the most read and discussed Arab and Moroccan philosophers.Jean Jacques Waardenburg, Islam: historical, social, and political perspectives, Walter de Gruyter, 2002, p.145-147Youssef M. Choueiri, Arab history and the nation-state: a study in modern Arab historiography, Routledge, 1989, p.165
Biography
Laroui was born in 1933 in Azemmour. His mother died when he was two. He studied at the kuttab before entering the public primary school at seven, where he studied from 1941 to 1945. In 1945, he obtained a grant to study at the College Sidi Mohammed in Marrakesh, where he stayed five years. Afterwards he studied at Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca from 1949 to 1951 and at Lycée Gouraud in Rabat from 1951 to 1953. He obtained his baccalauréat in 1953, and then studied history and economics, at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, where he studied under {{Interlanguage link|Charles Morazé|lt=|fr|Charles Morazé|WD=}} and Raymond Aron. In 1958, he obtained a Diplôme d'études supérieures. After receiving his agrégation in Islamic studies in June 1963, he was appointed as an assistant professor of history at the Mohammed V University in Rabat. In 1976, he defended his Doctorat d'Etat with a thesis titled "Les Origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain, 1830–1912" (Social and Cultural Origins of Moroccan Nationalism, 1830–1912) and published it in 1977.{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Laroui, Abdallah (1933–)|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/laroui-abdallah-1933|year=2008|encyclopedia=Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa|last=Gallagher|first=Nancy|pages=470–472|volume=II|editor-first=Michael R.|editor-last=Fischbach|isbn=9781414418919}}{{Cite journal|last=Gallagher|first=Nancy|year=1998|title=Interview — the life and times of Abdallah Laroui, a Moroccan intellectual|journal=The Journal of North African Studies|volume=3|issue=1|pages=132–151|doi=10.1080/13629389808718312|issn=1362-9387}} Laroui taught at the University Mohammed V until 2000. He has written five novels (o.a. L'Exil (Sindbad-Actes Sud, 1998)).Salim Jay, Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains, Eddif, 2005, pp 243-244
Historian Albert Hourani describes him as a significant Arab thinker of the post-1967 era.Hourani, Albert. "A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967." In A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991. Laroui's philosophy was guided by a Marxist reading of history and a commitment to radical critique of culture, language, and tradition.A. Laroui, La crise des intellectuels arabes (Paris, 1974), English trans. The crisis of the Arab intellectual (Berkeley, 1976); and L’idéologie arabe contemporaire, new edn (Paris, 1977).
Awards and honors
- In 2000, he was awarded the Premi Internacional Catalunya (Catalonia International Prize).{{Cite web|title=2000 Abdallah Laroui|url=https://presidencia.gencat.cat/ca/ambits_d_actuacio/premis/premi-internacional-catalunya/guardons-anteriors/#bloc25|access-date=2020-07-09|website=Departament de la Presidència|language=ca-ES}}{{Cite news|date=2000-03-22|title=El historiador marroquí Abdallah Laroui gana el Premio Catalunya El estudioso confía en que el premio avive el interés por la historia de su país|language=es|work=El País|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/03/23/cultura/953766036_850215.html|access-date=2020-07-09|issn=1134-6582}}
- In 2017, he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for "Cultural Personality of the Year",{{cite web |url=http://www.zayedaward.ae/2017/04/sheikh-zayed-book-award-names-abdallah-laroui-cultural-personality-of-the-year/ |title=Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Abdallah Laroui "Cultural Personality of the Year" |work=Sheikh Zayed Book Award website |date=5 April 2017 |access-date=April 28, 2017 |archive-date=9 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409051647/http://www.zayedaward.ae/2017/04/sheikh-zayed-book-award-names-abdallah-laroui-cultural-personality-of-the-year/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/culture/laroui-named-cultural-personality-of-the-year-1.2006323#.WOeDjUtdZbM.facebook |title=Laroui named Cultural Personality of the Year |work=Gulf News |date=5 April 2017 |access-date=April 28, 2017}} the premier category with a prize of 1 million dirhams.
Partial bibliography
{{Incomplete list|date=February 2022}}
- {{Cite book|title=L'Idéologie arabe contemporaine: essai critique.|publisher=Maspero|year=1967|location=Paris|trans-title=Contemporary Arab ideology: a critical essay}}
- {{Cite book|title=L'Algérie et le Sahara marocain|publisher=Serar|year=1976|location=Casablanca|trans-title=Algeria and the Moroccan Sahara}}
- {{Cite book|last=Laroui|first=Abdallah|title=La crise des intellectuels arabes: Traditionalisme ou historicisme?|publisher=Maspéro|year=1974|location=Paris}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ap33IcCtbiAC|title=The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism Or Historicism?|publisher=University of California Press|year=1976|isbn=978-0-520-02971-2|language=en|translator-last=Cammell|translator-first=Diarmid}}
- {{Cite book|title=Les origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain: 1830-1912|publisher=Maspéro|year=1977|location=Paris|trans-title=The social and cultural origins of Moroccan nationalism, 1830–1912}}
- {{Cite book|title=L'Histoire du Maghreb: un essai de synthèse|publisher=Maspero|year=1970|location=Paris}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvl9BgAAQBAJ|title=The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1977|isbn=978-1-4008-6998-5|location=Princeton, NJ|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|title=Islam et modernité|publisher=La Découverte|year=1987|isbn=978-2-7071-1662-8|location=Paris|trans-title=Islam and modernity}}
- {{Cite book|title=Islam et histoire|publisher=Albin Michel|year=1999|isbn=978-2-226-19903-4|location=Paris}}
- {{Cite book|title=Le Maroc et Hassan II: Un témoignage|publisher=Les Presses Inter Universitaires|year=2005|isbn=978-2-89441-084-4|location=Quebec|trans-title=Morocco and Hassan II: testimony}}
See also
References
External links
- {{cite web|url=http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/laroui.htm |title=Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust? |access-date=2011-01-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719214457/http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/laroui.htm |archive-date=2011-07-19 }} . Lecture by Abdallah Laroui, Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow, (Lecture delivered at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Providence, RI).
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