Abdallah Laroui
Moroccan historian and writer
Biography
Lists
Also Viewed
The basics
Quick Facts
| Intro | Moroccan historian and writer | |
| Places | Morocco | |
| is | Historian Journalist | |
| Work field | Journalism Social science | |
| Gender |
| |
| Birth | 7 November 1933, Azemmour | |
| Age | 91 years |
The details
Biography
Abdallah Laroui ( born November 7, 1933, in Azemmour) (Arabic: عبدالله العروي) is a Moroccan historian and novelist writing in Arabic and French. He is considered one of Morocco's leading intellectuals.
Laroui taught at the University Mohammed V in Rabat until 2000. He has written five novels (o.a. L’Exil (Sindbad-Actes Sud, 1998)).
Works
- Les Carnets d'Idriss, 2008
- Le Maroc et Hassan II, 2005
- Islam et Histoire : essai d’épistémologie, Albin Michel, 1999
- Islam et modernité, La Découverte, 1986
- L’Histoire du Maghreb : un essai de synthèse, Librarie Francois Maspero, 1970
- La Crise des intellectuels arabes : traditionalisme ou historicisme ?, La Découverte, 1978
- Les Origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain (1830-1912), Paris, 1977
- L’Idéologie arabe contemporaine 1967 - La Découverte, 1982
- In translation
- The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? (1976) (ISBN 0-520-02971-2)
- The History of the Maghreb: An Interpretive Essay, Ralph Manheim, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).