Concepts

This page gathers the central concepts in Arkoun’s project. Many of these concepts are not fixed definitions, but critical tools that move between history, discourse, and institution.

Preliminary Concepts

• Critique of Reason
• the unthought
• historicity
• orthodoxy
• applied Islamology
• the imaginary
• humanism
• power and knowledge
• discourse analysis
• tradition
• modernity
• secularization