al-Jābirī, Muḥammad ʿĀbid - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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von Kügelgen, Anke
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Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābirī (1935-2010) was one of the most influential Arab philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, his major work comprising the four volumes of Naqd al-ʿaql al-ʿArabī ("The critique of Arab reason"). Al-Jābirī played a significant role in shaping the 1980s and 1990s debate on aṣāla (authenticity), muʿāṣara (contemporaneity), and ḥadātha (modernity) by demanding an "epistemological break" ( qaṭīʿa ībistīmūlūjiyya ) with unscientific thought systems and pleading for rationality, realism, and the separation of religion and science. His own preference for the spelling