Lafif Lakhdar
Lafif Lakhdar (also written "Al-Afif Al-Akhdar" or "Afif Lakhdar") was a French-Tunisian writer and journalist. He was born the 6th of February 1934 in Maktar and died the 26th of July 2013.[1]
Life
[edit]Lafif Lakhdar was born into a very poor family.[citation needed] He studied in a madrasa and applied the University of Ez-Zitouna in Tunis ; he became a lawyer in 1957. He left Tunisia in 1961 and moved to Algeria, where he was one of Ahmed Ben Bella's close friends. He began a long journey throughout the Middle East. In 1979 he settled in France.[2]
As a leftist thinker he took part to the debate on secularism in Muslim countries. As a journalist he worked for several newspapers : Al-Hayat, Al-Quds Al-Arabi and more recently for the online magazine Elaph.
Books
[edit]- The Position on Religion (in Arabic), Dar al-Tali'a, Beyrouth, 1972.
- L'organisation moderne, Dar Al-Tali'a, Beyrouth, 1972.
- Mohamed Abd El Motaleb Al Houni, L'impasse arabe. Les Arabes face à la nouvelle stratégie américaine, Preface by L. Lakhdar, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004 (ISBN 978-2747570411)
- Min Muhammad al-iman ila Muhammad at-tarikh ("Muhammad: From Faith to History"), Al-Kamel Verlag, Cologne, 2014.
Selected articles
[edit]- "Moving From Salafi to Rationalist Education," in The Middle East Review of International Affairs (Volume 9, No. 1, Article 3, March 2005).
Bibliography
[edit]- Shaker Al-Nabulsi, The Devil's Advocate : A Study of Al-Afif Al-Akhdar's Thought, Beyrouth, Arab Institute for Research & Publishing, 2005 (ISBN 9953-36-791-4)
References
[edit]- ^ "عاش فريدا ومات فريدا. اختار توقيت موته وطريقة موته - الأوان". Alawan.org. Archived from the original on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ Haaretz. "The Arab Spinoza". Archived from the original on January 12, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
External links
[edit]- Articles in Arabic on "SSRCAW.org" dealing with the "Arab Spring" (2011) : http://www.ssrcaw.org/default.asp?cid=&serchtext=%C7%E1%DA%DD%ED%DD+%C7%E1%C3%CE%D6%D1
- "Is the Qu'ran an Encyclopædia of Science ?" (in English) : http://almuslih.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:is-the-qurn-an-encyclopaedia-of-science-1&catid=42:ethical-issues&Itemid=210
- "Why reform Islam?" (in English) : http://almuslih.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:why-reform-islam&catid=38:obstacles-to-reform&Itemid=207
- Articles on MEMRI (in English) : https://web.archive.org/web/20110104065457/http://www.memri.org/subject/en/137.htm
- Article published in Haaretz ("An Arab Spinoza"), Herald Tribune (17 March 2006) : https://web.archive.org/web/20110112073554/http://artsci.wustl.edu/~marton/JihadRoots.html
- Selected articles in Arabic : https://archive.today/20041129023408/http://www.yassar.freesurf.fr/authors/lakhdar.html
