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]

Awards and honors

In 2017 he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for "Cultural Personality of the Year",^[4][5] the premier category with a prize of 1 million dirhams.

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
4. ↑ "Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Abdallah Laroui "Cultural Personality of the Year"". Sheikh Zayed Book Award website. 5 April 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
5. ↑ "Laroui named Cultural Personality of the Year". Gulf News. 5 April 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 

External links

• "Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust?". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-01-31.  . Lecture by Abdallah Laroui, Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow, (Lecture delivered at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Providence, RI).