Abdallah Laroui

Abdallah Laroui ( born November 7, 1933, in Azemmour) (Arabic: عبدالله العروي) is a Moroccan historian and novelist writing in Arabic and French. He is considered one of Morocco's leading intellectuals.^[1][2]

Laroui taught at the University Mohammed V in Rabat until 2000. He has written five novels (o.a. L’Exil (Sindbad-Actes Sud, 1998)).^[3]

Works

• Les Carnets d'Idriss, 2008
• Le Maroc et Hassan II, 2005
• Islam et Histoire : essai d’épistémologie, Albin Michel, 1999
• Islam et modernité, La Découverte, 1986
• L’Histoire du Maghreb : un essai de synthèse, Librarie Francois Maspero, 1970
• La Crise des intellectuels arabes : traditionalisme ou historicisme ?, La Découverte, 1978
• Les Origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain (1830-1912), Paris, 1977
• L’Idéologie arabe contemporaine 1967 - La Découverte, 1982

In translation

• The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? (1976) (ISBN 0-520-02971-2)
• The History of the Maghreb: An Interpretive Essay, Ralph Manheim, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).

See also

• Abdelwahab Benmansour

References

1. ↑ Jean Jacques Waardenburg, Islam: historical, social, and political perspectives, Walter de Gruyter, 2002, p.145-147
2. ↑ Youssef M. Choueiri, Arab history and the nation-state: a study in modern Arab historiography, Routledge, 1989, p.165
3. ↑ Salim Jay, Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains, Eddif, 2005 , pp 243-244

External links

• Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust? at the Wayback Machine (archived July 19, 2011). Lecture by Abdallah Laroui, Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow, (Lecture delivered at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Providence, RI).