Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi
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Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi (born 25 December 1922, Fes, died on 23 August 1993, Rabat) was a Moroccan philosopher, novelist and poet writing in Arabic and French.
Career
Some of his books were translated into more than 30 languages. Lahbabi studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and received a doctorate of philosophy. He was professor of philosophy and dean of the faculty of letters at the Mohammed V University in Rabat. Characteristic of his philosophical writings is the union of Arab-Islamic and Western-humanistic ideas.[1][2] He also wrote poetry, fiction, and non-fiction books on economics, politics, and literature. Lahbabi was one of the founders of the Union of Arab Writers of the Maghreb and the review Afaq (Horizons). He was nominated for the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature.
References
- ^ Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi, Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World, ed. SUNY Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-7914-2663-0, p. 30: "Lahbabi, unquestionably one of the most important intellectual figures in contemporary North Africa"
- ^ Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Taylor & Francis, 1998, ISBN 978-0-415-07310-3, p. 20
Books
- Le Personnalisme Musulman (1964; "Muslim Personalism")
- Le Monde de Demain: Le Tiers-Monde accuse (1980; "The World of Tomorrow: The Third World accuses").
- Espoir vagabond (1972) (novel)
- Misères et lumières (1958) (poetry)
- 1922 births
- Writers from Fez, Morocco
- 1993 deaths
- University of Paris alumni
- Academic staff of Mohammed V University
- Moroccan writers in French
- Moroccan philosophers
- Moroccan essayists
- Moroccan male writers
- Male essayists
- 20th-century Moroccan poets
- Moroccan novelists
- Male novelists
- Member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco
- 20th-century Moroccan philosophers
- 20th-century novelists
- 20th-century essayists
- Moroccan expatriates in France
- Moroccan writer stubs