Shabbar, Saeed. “Ideology in Contemporary Arab Thought and Complex Crises and Solutions,” Year 7, Issue 25 (Sumer 1422 AH/ 2001 CE), Pp. 13-45.

Abstract

Saeed Shabbar explains the rationale behind choosing the topic of ideology, and the study of its effects on the Arab and Islamic intellectual scenes. He then defines the term and concept of “ideology.” He discusses the use of the term/concept “ideology” by contemporary Arab thinkers, such as Mohammed Abed al-Jabiri, Turki al-Hamad, Abdel Ilah Balqiz, Muhammad Ismail, Abdullah al-Urwi, Nadim al-Bitar, Muhammad Sbeila, Burhan Ghalioun, Mahmoud Amin al-Alim, Hassan Hanafi, Anwar Abdul Malik, Yasin al-Hafiz, Mohammed Arkoun, and Salah Qanswa. He concludes that the issue of ideology carries ambiguity, complexity, turbulence, and contradiction because of the term itself, questioning why terms are not named by their own names and defined by their own virtues, to liberate our concepts of ideology and ideological use?