Explanation
The Mediterranean space is treated as a shared historical field between Arabs and Europeans in which monotheistic religions, philosophy, and the sciences took shape. It is to be understood through a retrospective critical history that reveals the relations of domination, exchange, and division between its two shores.
Referred to by
- Islam and the Beginning of a New Mediterranean World
- Mediterranean history needs radical critique
- Critical comparative history of monotheistic religions frees the mind from closure and opens a human horizon
- The shared Mediterranean heritage
- Dialogue does not succeed unless it is freed from authoritarian certainties
- Dialogue and hope in the Mediterranean
- The unequal Mediterranean space
- The Mediterranean space as a field of interactions
- The Mediterranean as a shared field that reveals conflict, mediation, and the historical gap
- The Mediterranean field as a shared civilizational space with Eastern origins
- Medieval thinkers open a horizon between reason and religion
- Cultural mediation is Arkoun’s goal
- The unequal history of the Mediterranean imposes a retrospective critique
- The need to write a critical Mediterranean history
- Reading religion requires a method that goes beyond the great philosophers
- Critique of superficial narrative history
- The unity of the Arab-European civilizational space