University of Qom Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 1735-9791 11 2 2010 02 20 Criticizing Islamic-Arabic Reason from Jaberi's and Arkoun's Viewpoints Criticizing Islamic-Arabic Reason from Jaberi's and Arkoun's Viewpoints 78 102 172 10.22091/pfk.2009.172 FA Jahangir Masudi 0000-0002-6753-0693 Hushang Ostadi Journal Article 2015 08 10 The way in which the Arab thinkers encountered and reflected enlightenment and modernism determines their Arabic enlightenment. Some of these thinker's welcoming of enlightenment and western intellectuals, started with tendency to social values and philosophical and mental features of European civilization; thus, this approach with tendency to new researches in humanities, like structuralism, linguistics, hermeneutics, semantics and anthropology by a group of brilliant and contemporary Arab intellectuals like Mohammad-al-Jaberi and Mohammad Arkoun entered the area of criticizing Arabic-Islamic reason or traditional Islamic thoughts. In this essay we try to discuss the basic criticism of Arabic–Islamic reason in their ideas and retell and compare their Arabic enlightenment, by explaining the intellectual premises of these two thinkers.   The way in which the Arab thinkers encountered and reflected enlightenment and modernism determines their Arabic enlightenment. Some of these thinker's welcoming of enlightenment and western intellectuals, started with tendency to social values and philosophical and mental features of European civilization; thus, this approach with tendency to new researches in humanities, like structuralism, linguistics, hermeneutics, semantics and anthropology by a group of brilliant and contemporary Arab intellectuals like Mohammad-al-Jaberi and Mohammad Arkoun entered the area of criticizing Arabic-Islamic reason or traditional Islamic thoughts. In this essay we try to discuss the basic criticism of Arabic–Islamic reason in their ideas and retell and compare their Arabic enlightenment, by explaining the intellectual premises of these two thinkers.   https://pfk.qom.ac.ir/article_172_25f96e725cc5fc50f9e82d5799040944.pdf