Historicity and Structuralism in Jaberi's Thoughts; Review and Critique

Abstract

Finding a solution to get out of Arab-Islamic blocked thinking area, Muhammad Abid Jaberi has resorted to analyzing Arab-Islamic ‘tradition’ and its past. He has recognized three thought systems i.e. explication, illumination, and demonstrative episteme, with a historical and structural view, and in a critical rationality framework. Historicity and structural methodology have leaded him to deconstruct Arab-Islamic thinking area, and at the same time impose some structures to it. Reviewing Jaberi’s system of thought, this article concludes that, because of its historicity and structuralism, Jaberi’s thought have to be ideological to acquire its desirable goal; an ideology which is resulted from modern scientism, historicity and structuralism in Jaberi’s view.

Keywords

• Keywords: Arab-Islamic culture
• historicity
• structuralism
• explication
• illumination
• demonstrative reason
• ideology and epistemology