Background
Lahbabi, Muhammad Aziz was born on December 25, 1923 in Fes, Morocco.
Lahbabi, Muhammad Aziz was born on December 25, 1923 in Fes, Morocco.
Unij^rsity of Caen, France. 1953, CNRS, Paris, first wloroccan to obtain doctorate.
Professor and Dean of the acuity of Letters at the University of Mohammed V. Rabat. 1958-1974; contributed to the governmental Projects of Scientific Researches. “ember of the Royal Academy of Maroc. ^aln Publications: 954) De L'Être à ta personne, Paris: PUF. 956) Liberté ou libération?, Paris: Aubier. o4) Le Personalisme musulman, Paris: PUF. 980) Le Monde de demain, Paris. y84) Ihn Khaldun, Rabat and Paris: Okad-L’Har- mattan.
The starting-point of Lahbabi’s thought was the crisis of the Muslim intellectual divided between Western and traditional culture. He focused on individual human existence rather than on the concept of being in general, concentrating on the individual's struggle for self-realization and for a role in a natural and social framework. There must, he held, be a development from the concept of a human being in general to that of a human being as a person and he argued that: T am a unity of being and person, body and mind, engaged in a world where I am humanizing myself at the same time as by humanization with others’. Lahbabi’s aim was the establishment of personal autonomy within the social framework of the Islamic world, and this leads him to a critical apology of the Salafi modernist movement. Philosophy, he believed, will find its role when it becomes something more than learning, namely militancy. He held that there is no knowledge without liberation, nor liberation without knowledge. The future world’s destiny will be determined by the degree of universality humanity manages to attain, fully developing transcendental unity. Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy was for Lahbabi the reaffirmation of human sociability and a promise of further progress. Sources: P. Branca (1991) Voci deli Islam moderno, Genova: Marietti; Archives of the Pontifical Inst, of Arabic Studies in Rome.