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

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 Télévision speaking in Kabyle, his mother tongue, and on Al Jazeera speaking in Arabic.