Sadiq Jalal al-Azm
Sadiq Jalal al -Azm (Arabic صادق جلال العظم, DMG Sadiq al - ʿ Azm Ǧalāl; * November 1934 in Damascus ) is a Syrian thinker and philosopher.
Life
Growing up as the son of a famous Sunni family in Syria and after studying at Yale University, which he with a Ph.D. graduating, he began in 1963 his teaching at the American University of Beirut. His book self-criticism after the defeat (1968 ) is an analysis of the impact of the Six Day War to the Arab nations. Many of his books are in Arab countries on the index ( with the exception of Lebanon ).
Sadiq al -Azm was a professor at Damascus University and has taught at many universities in the world, including in Berlin and Hamburg. In the center of his philosophical work is on the consequences of the Enlightenment as the basis of technological progress in modern Europe and the conclusions of this analysis on the Arab-Islamic world, whose modernization through secularization he says. In addition, he was, inter alia, also known by its critique of Edward Said's thesis on Western Orientalism. After al -Azm Said would also concentrated and reduced the West pose as derived from the Orientalismuskonzept imperialism that Said has been introduced in the scientific discourse. To illustrate represents Al -Azm which an oriental embossed Okzidentalismusbild opposite.
In 2001 he was one of the first signatories of the Declaration of thousands, a manifesto for democratic elections, the rule of law and separation of powers in Syria.
In 2004, al -Azm was awarded the Erasmus Prize of the Dutch Foundation Praemium Erasmianum, 2005 he received the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the University of Tübingen. In June 2005, Sadiq al -Azm was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Hamburg.