Mohammed Arkoun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mohammed Arkoun

Algerian philosopher

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1928

Place of Birth: Beni Yenni, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria

Date of Death: 14-Sep-2010

Profession: historian, university teacher, Islamicist, philosopher

Nationality: Algeria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


Show Famous Birthdays Today, Algeria

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Mohammed Arkoun

  • Mohammed Arkoun (Kabyle: Mu?emmed Arkun; Arabic: ???? ??????; 1 February 1928 – 14 September 2010) was an Algerian scholar and thinker.
  • He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual Islamic reform.
  • In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his field of study, advocating Islamic modernism, secularism, and humanism.
  • During his academic career, he wrote his numerous books mostly in French, and occasionally in English and Arabic.
  • He appeared on numerous occasions on French TV and magazines, on Berbère TĂ©lĂ©vision speaking in Kabyle, his mother tongue, and on Al Jazeera speaking in Arabic.

Read more at Wikipedia