Abdallah Laroui

Abdallah Laroui ( born November 7, 1933, in Azemmour) (Arabic: عبدالله العروي) is a Moroccan historian and novelist writing in Arabic and French. He is considered one of Morocco's leading intellectuals.

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• Awards and honors
• Works
• References

Laroui taught at the University Mohammed V in Rabat until 2000. He has written five novels (o.a. L’Exil (Sindbad-Actes Sud, 1998)).

Awards and honors

In 2017 he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for "Cultural Personality of the Year", the premier category with a prize of 1 million dirhams.

Works

Les Carnets d'Idriss, 2008

Le Maroc et Hassan II, 2005

Islam et Histoire : essai d’épistémologie, Albin Michel, 1999

Islam et modernité, La Découverte, 1986

L’Histoire du Maghreb : un essai de synthèse, Librarie Francois Maspero, 1970

La Crise des intellectuels arabes : traditionalisme ou historicisme ?, La Découverte, 1978

Les Origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain (1830-1912), Paris, 1977

L’Idéologie arabe contemporaine 1967 - La Découverte, 1982

In translation

The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? (1976) (ISBN 0-520-02971-2)

The History of the Maghreb: An Interpretive Essay, Ralph Manheim, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).