Hasan Hanafi and Abid Al-Jabiri

Muhammad Abid Al Jabiri Born in Figuig, Southeast Morocco, 1936.

b). Al-Jabiri's Main Point

Al-Jabiri called for establishing Arabic epistemology of reason with three epistemologies namely Epistemology; Burhani, Bayani, and 'Irfani. The relation between tradition and modernity, according to Al-Jabiri, is maintaining good old traditions and taking new traditions better. That is, the tradition was reconstructed by internalizing contemporary thoughts. Tradition is not meant as a total acceptance of classical inheritance, so the term authenticity becomes debatable.