| Intro | Moroccan historian and writer |
| Is |
Historian Journalist |
| From | Morocco |
| Type |
Journalism
Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
7 November 1933, Azemmour |
| Age | 87 years |
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.
Laroui taught at the University Mohammed V in Rabat until 2000. He has written five novels (o.a. L’Exil (Sindbad-Actes Sud, 1998)).
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).