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The Arab Intellectual Between Power and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Jean-Paul Charnay
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In the contemporary Moslem-Arab societies, does the function of the intellectual recall that of the classic scholar, at once counsellor of the great people, honor of the city or of the village, and regulator, through the culture, through judicial consultation or through the education, of the social life? Any analogy too greatly stressed would be hazardous. After having sketched the constitutive movement of the Moslem civilization and its present state, we may then attempt to appraise the situation of the intellectual between the power and the cultural system.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 21 , Issue 83 , September 1973 , pp. 40 - 63
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Copyright © 1973 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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1 This article proposes a general hypothesis on the movement of the Moslem civilization. It lies at the hinge of two series of studies. The first tries to encompass the great currents of the contemporary Moslem-Arab culture: cf. "Le marxisme et l'Islam," Archives de Sociologie des Religions, July, 1960, n. 10, p. 133; "Les courants réformateurs de la pensée musulmane con temporaine," in Normes et valeurs dans l'Islam contemporain, by J. Berque, J. P. Charnay and others, Paris, Payot, 1966, p. 225; "Dynamique de la pensée musulmane contemporaine," L'Homme et la Société, n. 17, July 1970, p. 243, and "Dynamics of Contemporary Islamic Thought," France-Asie, n. 197, 1969, p. 147; "Ouverture sur l'islamologie," Actes du Congrès de Moham media "Culture arabe et culture française de part et d'autre de la Méditer ranée," 3-5 décembre 1970, in a special issue of Revue des études philosophi ques et littéraires, Rabat, n. 5, Sept. 1971, p. 33; see also the interview in the Arab revue Al-Fikr (Tunis), April 1971, p. 98; "Transferts de culture au Maghreb," Politique étrangère, n. 5, 1971, p. 603; "'Une trajectoire arabe. Du rejaillissement culturel à l'affirmation économique," Actes du colloque sur la Renaissance du monde arabe, Université catholique de Louvain, 1970, éd. Duculot, 1972, p. 38; "Jeux de miroirs et crises de civilisation. Réorienta tions du rapport islam/islamologie," Archives de Sociologie des Religions, n. 33, Jan. 1972, p. 135.

The second pursues the presentation of the principal social figures of the modem Arab countries: cf. the peasant in "Flux démographique, force éco nomique et appropriation du sol en Algérie," in De l'impérialisme à la déco lonisation, by J. Berque, J. P. Charnay and others, Paris, 1965, Editions de Minuit, p. 189; "Les cadres moyens dans les pays musulmans. Esquisse d'une problématique," Annales marocaines de Sociologie, n. 1, 1968, p. 31; "Con dition féminine et rapports sociaux dans l'Islam contemporain," Cahiers de l'Orient contemporain, n. 77, Oct. 1969, p. 4, and n. 78, Dec. 1969 p. 4; "La musulmane dans la ville moderne," Politique étrangère, n. 2, 1971, p. 141; "Pouvoir et bourgeoisie arabe. Le contrepoint libanais," Culture et développe ment. Revue internationale des sciences du développement, Université catholique de Louvain, vol. IV, 1972, p. 57; "Le militaire arabe entre le pouvoir et la révolution," Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, 1972, vol. LIII, p. 229.