My intellectual journey in roots and shoots

Book title: My Intellectual Journey in Roots, Seeds, and Fruits Author: Abdulwahab Al-Masiri Publisher: Al-Shorouk Publishing and Distribution From the enjoyable biography of the great thinker Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Masiri, it traces his personal transformations in thought and methodology and, at the same time, chronicles an entire generation, or part of it. The transformations of the author of this biography are by no means disconnected from what was happening around him. From this perspective, the events of the author's life are not important in themselves, but their importance lies in how much they shed light on his intellectual development. The author understood many of his private personal events through the same core themes and analytical propositions he used in his studies and objective research, not the other way around. However, this intellectual journey, with this, is the journey of the individual author himself, as he interacted with his surrounding experiences from his birth in Damanhour and his upbringing there, to his move to Alexandria, then to New York, and finally to Cairo where he settled. If this intellectual journey is a non-autobiographical biography, it is also an unobjective one—a biography of a person who encounters in his private life space both the personal and the universal. Therefore, he not only mentions abstract intellectual issues but always supports them with events from his life or quotes from his writings, illustrating how the general intellectual issue translated itself into specific events and facts in his personal life, all conveyed through the author's smooth, profound, and satirical style. This new edition features some additions, most notably a large photo appendix that covers the author's journey and various milestones in his life.