al-Khaṭībī, ʿAbd al-Kabīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Fernández Parilla, Gonzalo
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Khaṭībī (Abdelkébir Khatibi, d. 2009) was a prominent Moroccan author, sociologue, scholar, novelist, essayist, literary critic, poet, playwright, and art critic. He belonged to a brilliant generation of francophone writers and political activists and was a key postcolonial intellectual of Morocco and the Maghrib. Influenced by Gibran, Fanon, Marx, and Freud, among many others, he tackled a wide range of issues from Sufism to orientalism and popular culture. He was born in al-Jadida, south of Casablanca, in 1938. After finishing his studies in the French