Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Biographic Data
| ID | 287000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahmoud Dhaouadi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahmoud |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhaouadi |
| SIGNATURE | DHAOUADI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tunis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Essential Concepts in Sociology
My review of this book is not the outcome of my simple reading of it, butof translating it into Arabic. Its 240 pages identify and discuss sixty-sevenessential sociological concepts, most notably those core concepts and ideasthat allow sociologists to make sense of societies, even though our understandingof these concepts is constantly evolving and changing. The twosociologists have arranged their book in the following sections – workingdefinitio…
Jerusalem
Islamic Revivalism in the Arab World and Its Dialogue with the West
This paper seeks to underline two features of transformation in the Arab world since the late 1960s. First, that region’s religious transformation or ṣaḥwah(awakening) has been a general and overwhelming phenomenon. The pulse of Islam’s global surge can be easily observed at various levels of contemporary Arab countries: the individual and the collective, as well as their political behavior and organization. Second, the great tension between the …
Humanity as Homo Culturus
This paper claims that human beings are first of all Homo Culturus and only then Homo Politicus, Homo Sociologus, or Homo Oeconomicus. Human beings are distinguished from all other species by what I call human symbols (HS), namely, language, thought, religion, knowledge/science, myths, laws, and cultural values and norms. As such, they are central to the human identity of individuals, groups, and societies and therefore basic keys for understandi…
Inside Muslim Minds
The `Aql-Naql Theory of Human Symbols and the Making of Cultural Sociology
This paper uses both reason (`aql) and Qur’an-based knowledge (naql) to establish my `Aql-Naql Theory of Human Symbols (ANTHS) and explain its relevance to the formulation of cultural sociology. In it, I argue that human individuals are by nature users of human symbols, based upon the following five observations/concepts: (1) the process of the human body’sgrowth and maturation is very slow when compared to that of other living beings; (2) humans…
Arab intellectual concepts for cultural sociology
This paper presents new cultural concepts drawn from the Arab world. The terms ‘other underdevelopment’ and ‘cultural symbols’ are new as terms as well as cultural concepts in today’s social sciences. As such, they are in favour of the development of cultural sociology with a ‘strong programme’. This paper argues that the building of a cultural theory based on a different epistemology and on new cultural concepts is a legitimate possibility. This…
The Forgotten Concept of Human Nature in Khaldunian Studies
Culture from a different, Islamic perspective
This essay proposes a new perspective for understanding and studying the concept and the phenomenon of culture. This perspective is rather different from those of contemporary Western anthropology and sociology, and uses the term "cultural symbols" rather than "culture". Cultural symbols are defined as follows: language, thought, religion, knowledge/science, myths, and cultural values and norms. Language in particular, may be regarded as the "Mot…
Ibn Khaldûn, sociologue avant la lettre
The Ibar
A Theoretical Approach to "Al Mustanfira" Tunisian Personality
In their interaction with each other, Tunisians show an attitude of uneasiness, tension and fear toward their fellow Tunisians with whom they come in contact for the first time (they are seen as strangers or "barrani"). We have used the A rabic term "Al Mustanfira"to describe this type of personality. The implications of this characteristic of the Tunisian Personality are numerous for both the Tunisian individual and her/his society. We mention h…
Social Science's Need for a Cultural Symbols Paradigm
The thesis of this paper is that human beings are remarkably distinct from other living beings (animals, birds, insects, etc.) and Artificial Jntelligence (Al) machines (computers, robots, etc.) by what we would like to call cultural symbols. The latter refers to such cultural components as language, science, knowledge, religious beliefs, thought, myths, cultural norms and values
Social Sciences in Crisis
DHAOUADI: Based on my own observations and impressions, one talksmore about sociology as a discipline having a crisis, than about psychologyor political science. How do you respond to that?SMELSER: I heard this kind of talk among sociologists. Among thequestions raised in their frequent conversations are: What is the fieldabout? What are the boundaries about? Is it (sociology) fragmented? Is itpracticed ... etc?In that disciplinary sense, every f…
Capitalism's Impending Dangers for Global Humane Development
The author suggests that development models influenced by the capitalistmodel of development overlooks nonmaterial dimensions ofdevelopment and underdevelopment. As a consequence of this, socialsciences, which are shaped by capitalist concerns also, do not examinethe negative consequences of colonization on underdeveloped societies.The problem is not just ideological it is also epistemological. Positivesocial science, according to the author an o…
Searching for Solace
Searching for Solace consists of two parts, two appendixes, and a sectiondisplaying documents and photos of Yusuf Ali and those with whom he hadcontact.The author devotes the first part to A. Yusuf Ali's life and his service tothe British. He was born in 1872 in Surat, western India, into the Bohra mercantilecommunity, whose members trace their Muslim ancestry to the effonsof preachers sent by the FaJimid caliphs in Cairo. Ali was sent to Bombay …
Promises of the Modern Scientific Search for Human Nature's Multifaceted Soul
Since time immemorial, hwnan beings have sought to understand theessence of human nature. One well-known explanation-human nature isdualistic, body and soul, and composed of organic and spiritual dimensions-has not ended the debate over subissues that proceed from the mainconcept of hwnan nature. Our concern here is how the spirit and the bodyinfluence each other. As modem knowledge and science are far from havingthe last word in this domain, the…
Un essai de théorisation sur le penchant vers l‛accent parisien chez la femme tunisienne
Article Un essai de théorisation sur le penchant vers l‛accent parisien chez la femme tunisienne was published on January 1, 1996 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1996, issue 122)
The Arab Political Mind
Reflections into the Spirit of the Islamic Corpus of Knowledge and the Rise of the New Science
There is no question that contemporary western civilization has beendominant in the field of science since the Renaissance. Western scientificsuperiority is not limited to specific scientific disciplines, but is rather anovetall scientific domination covering both the so-called exact and thehuman-social sciences. Western science is the primary reference for specialistsin such ateas as physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, economics,psychology, a…
The Cultural-Symbolic Soul
This study deals with the nature of human cultural symbols such as language,thought, religious beliefs, knowledge, cultural norms and values, and science.The essay consists of two major parts: a) the development of a basic theoreticalframework for studying the nature of what we call the cultural-symbolic soul,and b) the application of this new concept to understanding, as well as theformulation of a potential explanation for, the dynamics of cult…
An Exploration into the Nature of the Making of Human and Artifcial Intelligence and the Qur’anic Persepctive
The ongoing controversy over artificial and human intelligence ischaracterized by open disagreement. Some researchers believe that artificialintelligence has the potential to become equal to or even superior tohuman intelligence, while others say that such a development is impossible.The thesis of this paper is that the gap between human and artificialintelligence is bound to remain considerable, both in the short term andin the long term. The co…
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun's social thought has largely been ignored by sociologists in the West, although Yves Lacoste and Arnold Toynbee considered it to be the greatest work of its kind. He lived at a time of crisis in Arab-Muslim civilisation, and a paradigm crisis in historiography. His ' Ilm Al 'Umran, the New Science, was designed to provide a better understanding of the history of Arab-Muslim societies. Its introduction, the Muqaddimah, has been interpr…
An Operational Analysis of the Phenomenon of the Other Underdevelopment in the Arab World and in the Third World
Our analysis here of the 'Other Underdevelopment' is based on the premise that interaction between unequal partners tends to underdevelop the self-possessed resources and capacities of the dominated parties. Contemporary Western domination of the Third World is a classical case in point. This domination has not only led to the socio-economic underdevelopment of the African, Asian and Latin American countries, but it has also created among them a …
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun's social thought has largely been ignored by sociologists in the West, although Yves Lacoste and Arnold Toynbee considered it to be the greatest work of its kind. He lived at a time of crisis in Arab-Muslim civilisation, and a paradigm crisis in historiography. His ' Ilm Al 'Umran, the New Science, was designed to provide a better understanding of the history of Arab-Muslim societies. Its introduction, the Muqaddimah, has been interpr…
An Operational Analysis of the Phenomenon of the Other Underdevelopment in the Arab World and in the Third World
Our analysis here of the 'Other Underdevelopment' is based on the premise that interaction between unequal partners tends to underdevelop the self-possessed resources and capacities of the dominated parties. Contemporary Western domination of the Third World is a classical case in point. This domination has not only led to the socio-economic underdevelopment of the African, Asian and Latin American countries, but it has also created among them a …
Jerusalem
An Operational Analysis of the Phenomenon of the Other Underdevelopment in the Arab World and in the Third World
Our analysis here of the 'Other Underdevelopment' is based on the premise that interaction between unequal partners tends to underdevelop the self-possessed resources and capacities of the dominated parties. Contemporary Western domination of the Third World is a classical case in point. This domination has not only led to the socio-economic underdevelopment of the African, Asian and Latin American countries, but it has also created among them a …
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun's social thought has largely been ignored by sociologists in the West, although Yves Lacoste and Arnold Toynbee considered it to be the greatest work of its kind. He lived at a time of crisis in Arab-Muslim civilisation, and a paradigm crisis in historiography. His ' Ilm Al 'Umran, the New Science, was designed to provide a better understanding of the history of Arab-Muslim societies. Its introduction, the Muqaddimah, has been interpr…
The Cultural-Symbolic Soul
This study deals with the nature of human cultural symbols such as language,thought, religious beliefs, knowledge, cultural norms and values, and science.The essay consists of two major parts: a) the development of a basic theoreticalframework for studying the nature of what we call the cultural-symbolic soul,and b) the application of this new concept to understanding, as well as theformulation of a potential explanation for, the dynamics of cult…
An Exploration into the Nature of the Making of Human and Artifcial Intelligence and the Qur’anic Persepctive
The ongoing controversy over artificial and human intelligence ischaracterized by open disagreement. Some researchers believe that artificialintelligence has the potential to become equal to or even superior tohuman intelligence, while others say that such a development is impossible.The thesis of this paper is that the gap between human and artificialintelligence is bound to remain considerable, both in the short term andin the long term. The co…
Reflections into the Spirit of the Islamic Corpus of Knowledge and the Rise of the New Science
There is no question that contemporary western civilization has beendominant in the field of science since the Renaissance. Western scientificsuperiority is not limited to specific scientific disciplines, but is rather anovetall scientific domination covering both the so-called exact and thehuman-social sciences. Western science is the primary reference for specialistsin such ateas as physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, economics,psychology, a…
The Arab Political Mind
Promises of the Modern Scientific Search for Human Nature's Multifaceted Soul
Since time immemorial, hwnan beings have sought to understand theessence of human nature. One well-known explanation-human nature isdualistic, body and soul, and composed of organic and spiritual dimensions-has not ended the debate over subissues that proceed from the mainconcept of hwnan nature. Our concern here is how the spirit and the bodyinfluence each other. As modem knowledge and science are far from havingthe last word in this domain, the…
Un essai de théorisation sur le penchant vers l‛accent parisien chez la femme tunisienne
Article Un essai de théorisation sur le penchant vers l‛accent parisien chez la femme tunisienne was published on January 1, 1996 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1996, issue 122)
Searching for Solace
Searching for Solace consists of two parts, two appendixes, and a sectiondisplaying documents and photos of Yusuf Ali and those with whom he hadcontact.The author devotes the first part to A. Yusuf Ali's life and his service tothe British. He was born in 1872 in Surat, western India, into the Bohra mercantilecommunity, whose members trace their Muslim ancestry to the effonsof preachers sent by the FaJimid caliphs in Cairo. Ali was sent to Bombay …
Capitalism's Impending Dangers for Global Humane Development
The author suggests that development models influenced by the capitalistmodel of development overlooks nonmaterial dimensions ofdevelopment and underdevelopment. As a consequence of this, socialsciences, which are shaped by capitalist concerns also, do not examinethe negative consequences of colonization on underdeveloped societies.The problem is not just ideological it is also epistemological. Positivesocial science, according to the author an o…
A Theoretical Approach to "Al Mustanfira" Tunisian Personality
In their interaction with each other, Tunisians show an attitude of uneasiness, tension and fear toward their fellow Tunisians with whom they come in contact for the first time (they are seen as strangers or "barrani"). We have used the A rabic term "Al Mustanfira"to describe this type of personality. The implications of this characteristic of the Tunisian Personality are numerous for both the Tunisian individual and her/his society. We mention h…
Social Science's Need for a Cultural Symbols Paradigm
The thesis of this paper is that human beings are remarkably distinct from other living beings (animals, birds, insects, etc.) and Artificial Jntelligence (Al) machines (computers, robots, etc.) by what we would like to call cultural symbols. The latter refers to such cultural components as language, science, knowledge, religious beliefs, thought, myths, cultural norms and values
Social Sciences in Crisis
DHAOUADI: Based on my own observations and impressions, one talksmore about sociology as a discipline having a crisis, than about psychologyor political science. How do you respond to that?SMELSER: I heard this kind of talk among sociologists. Among thequestions raised in their frequent conversations are: What is the fieldabout? What are the boundaries about? Is it (sociology) fragmented? Is itpracticed ... etc?In that disciplinary sense, every f…
The Ibar
Ibn Khaldûn, sociologue avant la lettre
Arab intellectual concepts for cultural sociology
This paper presents new cultural concepts drawn from the Arab world. The terms ‘other underdevelopment’ and ‘cultural symbols’ are new as terms as well as cultural concepts in today’s social sciences. As such, they are in favour of the development of cultural sociology with a ‘strong programme’. This paper argues that the building of a cultural theory based on a different epistemology and on new cultural concepts is a legitimate possibility. This…
The Forgotten Concept of Human Nature in Khaldunian Studies
Culture from a different, Islamic perspective
This essay proposes a new perspective for understanding and studying the concept and the phenomenon of culture. This perspective is rather different from those of contemporary Western anthropology and sociology, and uses the term "cultural symbols" rather than "culture". Cultural symbols are defined as follows: language, thought, religion, knowledge/science, myths, and cultural values and norms. Language in particular, may be regarded as the "Mot…
The `Aql-Naql Theory of Human Symbols and the Making of Cultural Sociology
This paper uses both reason (`aql) and Qur’an-based knowledge (naql) to establish my `Aql-Naql Theory of Human Symbols (ANTHS) and explain its relevance to the formulation of cultural sociology. In it, I argue that human individuals are by nature users of human symbols, based upon the following five observations/concepts: (1) the process of the human body’sgrowth and maturation is very slow when compared to that of other living beings; (2) humans…
Humanity as Homo Culturus
This paper claims that human beings are first of all Homo Culturus and only then Homo Politicus, Homo Sociologus, or Homo Oeconomicus. Human beings are distinguished from all other species by what I call human symbols (HS), namely, language, thought, religion, knowledge/science, myths, laws, and cultural values and norms. As such, they are central to the human identity of individuals, groups, and societies and therefore basic keys for understandi…
Inside Muslim Minds
Islamic Revivalism in the Arab World and Its Dialogue with the West
This paper seeks to underline two features of transformation in the Arab world since the late 1960s. First, that region’s religious transformation or ṣaḥwah(awakening) has been a general and overwhelming phenomenon. The pulse of Islam’s global surge can be easily observed at various levels of contemporary Arab countries: the individual and the collective, as well as their political behavior and organization. Second, the great tension between the …
Essential Concepts in Sociology
My review of this book is not the outcome of my simple reading of it, butof translating it into Arabic. Its 240 pages identify and discuss sixty-sevenessential sociological concepts, most notably those core concepts and ideasthat allow sociologists to make sense of societies, even though our understandingof these concepts is constantly evolving and changing. The twosociologists have arranged their book in the following sections – workingdefinitio…
Jerusalem
Philosophy (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works)