THE UNTHOUGHT IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC THOUGHT

Mohammed Arkoun

Mohammed Arkoun is one of the Muslim world's foremost thinkers. His efforts to liberate Islamic history from dogmatic constructs have led him to a radical review of traditional history. Drawing on a combination of pertinent disciplines-history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology-his approach subjects every system of belief and non-belief, every tradition of exegesis, theology, and jurisprudence to a critique aimed at liberating reason from the grip of dogmatic postulates. The expected outcome of such a strategy is an emancipated political reason working hand in hand with a truly creative imagination for a radical re-construction of mind and society in the contemporary Muslim world.