This book does not seek to study the entirety of Taha Hussein’s works, but rather to address specific aspects of them that are more relevant to our current questions than others: first, the relationship with the West and universal common values, second, science and reason and their limits and their connection to religion, and finally heritage and its reading. In the three topics, Taha Hussein presented a set of original, courageous, and profound ideas, some of which are mixed and confusing, in need of criticism and correction, but in their entirety they are still valid in our world today.
These three things intertwine to form the core of the dean’s progressive, liberal, libertarian thought: common values for all people, based on science and reason, but which draw boundaries for reason and science without abandoning them, and through these values, we adhere to heritage on the condition
Reread it radically, revolutionary and completely.
This book is not a tribute to Taha Hussein. It criticizes the dean on several points, but it is not intended to attack him either. But he basically recalls his main arguments and discusses them, in order to arrive at answers to contemporary questions for us today.
Uday Al-Zoubi / Syrian storyteller, essayist, and translator who lives in Sweden. He graduated from the University of Damascus in 2004, and obtained a doctorate in philosophy of language from
University of East Anglia in Britain 2015
He has published several collections of short stories, including “Half Smile” (2022) and “The Book of Wisdom and Naivety” (2019).
He translated more than one work by major writers, including What Do I Believe? Essays on freedom, religion, and rationality. Written by Bertrand Russell 2015
