Taha Hussein, pioneer of Arab liberal rationalism - Abdul Razak Eid

If the thought of Taha Hussein and his systematic practice of rational liberal methodology form an inescapable legacy for all contemporary Arab intellectual currents (liberalism – Islamism – nationalism – Marxism) where liberal rationality today rises as a priority in the face of Arab mind challenges to be able to open a dialogue based on awareness matching its reality with its various currents in the pursuit of secularization and democracy and pluralism and defending human rights, and reviving civil society which was destroyed by the satiated military agricultural mind. Rationality – liberalism is the shared need for all Arab thought currents: Islamic, nationalist, Marxist, or liberal so that the Arab society – perhaps – can overcome the current unreasonable oppressive present on one hand and avoid the future catastrophe on the other. Number of pages 345