ムハンマド・アルクーン研究序説
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Mohammed Arkoun (1928〜), one of the most important Muslim neomodernists, criticizing the "fundamentalist" views of Islam, strives for the integration of Islam with modernity. He distinguishes fait coranique (Quranic fact) from fait islamique (Islamic fact). The former is an ideal expressed in the words of God, and the latter is the result of the human interpretative activities in the context of specific historical situations. He tries to show that contemporary Islam is the fusion of both. Accordingly he proposes the critique de la raison islamique (criticism of Islamic reason), and tries to place Islam in the contemporary historical perspective. Arkoun's attitude toward the Quran is a reconstruction of its values not from the objective outside, but from the subjective inside. His approach is arguably a reflection of a sense of being marginal. He was born a "Berber" in Algeria and now lives in France. Perhaps because Arabic and French, the languages he writes in are not his mother toungues, he has a more detached objectivity. Residing on the margins of the Islamic culutural sphere, he can have an outsider's view of Islamic society and its values. Precisely because of this, that society tends to find his thought difficult to accept. Arkoun's methodology is often regarded as "dangerous" in the Islamic world. His thought not only deserves close analysis on its own merit but also because by observing its reception in the Islamic world we may be able to gain insights into future directions of the intellectual debate on Islam.
- 日本中東学会の論文
- 1996-03-31