Nabhani KORIBAA

Nabhani KORIBAA

Born1917
Died09/11/2004
LanguageFrench
NationalityAlgeria (and French Algeria)
Born in Ouled Djellal in the Biskra region of Algeria, Koribaa Nabhani stands as one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century Algerian philosophy. After completing his secondary education in Algiers and Paris, he earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1966 under the supervision of Gaston Bachelard, with a dissertation on the philosophy of aesthetics. During his years in Paris, he moved in the intellectual circles of Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide, and studied under the renowned orientalist Louis Massignon. He was awarded the Prix des intellectuels français in 1952 and the Académie française poetry prize in 1954. Returning to Algeria, he taught philosophy at the University of Algiers until his death. The author of some ten works in French — among them Les Kharidjites, démocrates de l'Islam (1991) and Omar Khayyâm, messager de l'Iran universel (1988) — Nabhani devoted his intellectual life to a universalist humanism rooted in Arab-Islamic culture and open to cross-civilisational dialogue. He died on 9 November 2004, leaving a body of work that remains largely unrecognised outside Algeria.
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Other Names
  • Nabhani Koribaa
  • KOURIBA Nabhani
  • النبهاني كريبع
Bibliography

1935   Poèmes d'un enfant [Poems of a Child], Éditions France-Afrique, Algiers

[1953]   Les quatre sages de la Palmeraie [The Four Sages of the Palm Grove], n.p. (Prix des intellectuels français, 1953)

1954   Complaintes de l'Arabe [Laments of the Arab], Cahiers du Nouvel Humanisme, Paris (awarded by the Académie française)

1955   Des Africains s'interrogent [Africans Ask Questions] (in collaboration with General Jean Charbonneau), La Colombe, Éditions du Vieux Colombier, Paris

1962   Prométhée, mage de l'humanité future [Prometheus, Mage of the Future Humanity], La Colombe, Éditions du Vieux Colombier, Paris (preface by Étienne Souriau)

[1964?]   Essai d'une détermination esthétique de l'humain [Essay Towards an Aesthetic Determination of the Human], doctoral thesis, Université de Paris, Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines; Algerian edition: Algiers, Impr. du Parti [n.d.]

1966   Le Bien et le mal dans le Qoran [Good and Evil in the Quran], Algiers, Société nationale d'édition et de diffusion (SNED)

1978   Défense du Prophète [In Defence of the Prophet], Algiers, Éditions populaires de l'armée

1979   Commentaire du Fanatisme ou Mahomet le Prophète, tragédie en 5 actes de Voltaire [Commentary on Voltaire's Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet], [Algiers], [publisher not identified]

1980   Les Philosophes de l'Islam [The Philosophers of Islam], Algiers, Société nationale d'édition et de diffusion (SNED)

1984   Le Bien et le mal d'après le Qorân [Good and Evil According to the Quran], Algiers, Entreprise nationale du livre (revised and retitled edition of the 1966 work)

1984   Restauration des sciences religieuses (Ihya ulum ad-dine) d'Al-Ghazali : condensé critique [Restoration of Religious Sciences by Al-Ghazali: a Critical Condensation], Algiers, Entreprise nationale du livre

1988   Omar Khayam : messager de l'Iran universel [Omar Khayyam: Messenger of Universal Iran], Publisud, Paris

1989   Humain universel : anthropologie esthétique [Universal Human: Aesthetic Anthropology], Entreprise nationale du livre, Algiers

1991   Les Kharidjites : démocrates de l'Islam [The Kharijites: Democrats of Islam], Publisud, Paris

1994   Les Sounnites ou l'Islam légalisé [The Sunnis, or Legalised Islam], Publisud, Paris

1995   Philosophes de l'humanité : Grèce, Rome, Inde, Chine, Perse, Islam, Europe médiévale et moderne [Philosophers of Humanity: Greece, Rome, India, China, Persia, Islam, Medieval and Modern Europe], Publisud, Paris

2001   L'Homme en Islam : historicité et ouverture [Man in Islam: Historicity and Openness], Publisud, Paris

Prefaces:

  • Abdessemed Boubaker, T'Fouda, terre africaine, 1 : Ifis, l'illuminé du désert, Algiers, Éditions populaires de l'armée [n.d.]
  • Mohamed Hilmi, Le présent du passé, Algiers, Casbah Éditions, 2004
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