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Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta: Conflict and Coexistence: Proceedings of the 29th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Munster 2018, 2022

The Moroccan thinker Ṭaha ֫Abd ar-Raḥman (b. 1944) responds to the challenges of modernity by pr... more The Moroccan thinker Ṭaha ֫Abd ar-Raḥman (b. 1944) responds to the challenges of modernity by proposing a project to reform Islam. Its focus is, on the one hand, on the rethinking of the “spirit of modernity” and its principles, and, on the other, on the critical self-reflection. He argues against the uncritical adoption of Western cultural and political models and calls for the development of “responsible and creative autonomy” of thinking.
Within this twofold renewal process, translation has a major role to play by getting out from the limited experience of the ‘’following” translation and expanding into creative “exploratory” translation that transforms the Self and reconsiders its relations with the Other.

Възможна ли е ислямска модерност? Концепцията за „разкриващ превод“ на Абдуррахман Таха IS ISLAMIC MODERNITY POSSIBLE? ABDURRAHMAN TAHA'S CONCEPT OF "EXPLORATORY TRANSLATION", 2024

This article focuses on several key ideas of the contemporary Moroccan philosopher Abdurrahman Ta... more This article focuses on several key ideas of the contemporary Moroccan philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. The methodological framework of the analysis is set by the concept of epistemological crisis introduced by Alasdair McIntyre. Taha formulates three basic universal principles of modernity and considers each of them in its historical manifestation. According to him, the translation tradition in Islamic history has failed to create an autonomous creative process because its two major movements mimic thoughts, ideas and lifestyles that are neither deeply rooted nor organic to Muslim societies. Their common characteristic is imitation of ancient as well as of modern ideas. They should be replaced by the new concept of “exploratory translation„, which not only reveals the creative energy of the original text, but also allows recipients to turn it into a stimulus for their own creativity. According to Taha, a conscious effort to renew the translation tradition is the best way to create an authentic Islamic modernity.

Keywords Abdurrahman Taha, epistemological crisis, Islamic Modernity, translation tradition, „exploratory translation“

Ed. Sebastian Guenther, Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 172, 2020

The presentation focuses on the interplay between the ontological hierarchy introduced in the wri... more The presentation focuses on the interplay between the ontological hierarchy introduced in the writings of al-Fārābī and the epistemological hierarchy developed in his political works.
Al-Fārābī's understanding that the ultimate happiness can be attained in the afterlife but only as a result of the efforts of man during his earthly existence bears the mark of the conflict between the two major tendencies in his thought - the demand to surpass the limitations of the material world and the demand to engage man in its organization. It is the concept of the perfect political order of the virtuous city governed by the Philosopher-prophet that fully reconciles all these tensions. Thus his philosophical pathos leads to a unified vision of the structure of all beings culminating in a social utopia with an epistemological foundation that not only his contemporaries but every community of men should strive for.

Литературата, The Literature, 2018

The text is focusing on the famous debate about the merits of the Greek logic and the Arab gramm... more The text is focusing on the famous debate about the merits of the Greek logic and the Arab grammar between the Muslim grammarian Abu Said as-Sirafi and the Christian logician Abu Bishr Matta in 932. The formal structure of the debate adduces arguments against the Greek logic and its claims to be a universal tool for distinguishing between correct and incorrect speech. On the other hand, within the framework of the debate one can observe the clash between two different ideas about the sources of knowledge, the hierarchy of sciences and the different ways of legitimation of Greek heritage in the Medieval Muslim culture.

Conference Presentations by Mariana Malinova

The text focuses on the concept of modern political democracy as a system of governance with its ... more The text focuses on the concept of modern political democracy as a system of governance with its specific patterns, rules, practices and strategies. It discusses its compatibility with the Islamic tradition and the competing models and concepts of Muslim political order that have a huge effect on the current events in the Middle East and Islamic societies.

Books by Mariana Malinova

Gutenberg, 2022

This first translation into Bulgarian is accompanied by an introduction to the ideational world o... more This first translation into Bulgarian is accompanied by an introduction to the ideational world of the Great Sheikh and by a detailed commentary that presents the main symbols in the collection in their Arabic and mystical context.
"Тълкувател на страстите" на Ибн ал-Араби: Символ и значение;
The Interpreter of Desires of Ibn al-Arabi: Symbols and Meanings (in Bulgarian)
ISBN 9786191762156

The book presents a nuanced picture of the translating movement in the Abbasid caliphate, complic... more The book presents a nuanced picture of the translating movement in the Abbasid caliphate, complicated and deepened by the consideration of translation as a complex social phenomenon; as a collection of historical, biographical and ideological elements that changed its dynamics from the beginning of the 8th century until its slow decline in the second half of the 10th century.
ISBN: 978-954-617-132-0

Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta: Conflict and Coexistence: Proceedings of the 29th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Munster 2018, 2022

The Moroccan thinker Ṭaha ֫Abd ar-Raḥman (b. 1944) responds to the challenges of modernity by pr... more The Moroccan thinker Ṭaha ֫Abd ar-Raḥman (b. 1944) responds to the challenges of modernity by proposing a project to reform Islam. Its focus is, on the one hand, on the rethinking of the “spirit of modernity” and its principles, and, on the other, on the critical self-reflection. He argues against the uncritical adoption of Western cultural and political models and calls for the development of “responsible and creative autonomy” of thinking.
Within this twofold renewal process, translation has a major role to play by getting out from the limited experience of the ‘’following” translation and expanding into creative “exploratory” translation that transforms the Self and reconsiders its relations with the Other.

Възможна ли е ислямска модерност? Концепцията за „разкриващ превод“ на Абдуррахман Таха IS ISLAMIC MODERNITY POSSIBLE? ABDURRAHMAN TAHA'S CONCEPT OF "EXPLORATORY TRANSLATION", 2024

This article focuses on several key ideas of the contemporary Moroccan philosopher Abdurrahman Ta... more This article focuses on several key ideas of the contemporary Moroccan philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. The methodological framework of the analysis is set by the concept of epistemological crisis introduced by Alasdair McIntyre. Taha formulates three basic universal principles of modernity and considers each of them in its historical manifestation. According to him, the translation tradition in Islamic history has failed to create an autonomous creative process because its two major movements mimic thoughts, ideas and lifestyles that are neither deeply rooted nor organic to Muslim societies. Their common characteristic is imitation of ancient as well as of modern ideas. They should be replaced by the new concept of “exploratory translation„, which not only reveals the creative energy of the original text, but also allows recipients to turn it into a stimulus for their own creativity. According to Taha, a conscious effort to renew the translation tradition is the best way to create an authentic Islamic modernity.

Keywords Abdurrahman Taha, epistemological crisis, Islamic Modernity, translation tradition, „exploratory translation“

Ed. Sebastian Guenther, Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 172, 2020

The presentation focuses on the interplay between the ontological hierarchy introduced in the wri... more The presentation focuses on the interplay between the ontological hierarchy introduced in the writings of al-Fārābī and the epistemological hierarchy developed in his political works.
Al-Fārābī's understanding that the ultimate happiness can be attained in the afterlife but only as a result of the efforts of man during his earthly existence bears the mark of the conflict between the two major tendencies in his thought - the demand to surpass the limitations of the material world and the demand to engage man in its organization. It is the concept of the perfect political order of the virtuous city governed by the Philosopher-prophet that fully reconciles all these tensions. Thus his philosophical pathos leads to a unified vision of the structure of all beings culminating in a social utopia with an epistemological foundation that not only his contemporaries but every community of men should strive for.

Литературата, The Literature, 2018

The text is focusing on the famous debate about the merits of the Greek logic and the Arab gramm... more The text is focusing on the famous debate about the merits of the Greek logic and the Arab grammar between the Muslim grammarian Abu Said as-Sirafi and the Christian logician Abu Bishr Matta in 932. The formal structure of the debate adduces arguments against the Greek logic and its claims to be a universal tool for distinguishing between correct and incorrect speech. On the other hand, within the framework of the debate one can observe the clash between two different ideas about the sources of knowledge, the hierarchy of sciences and the different ways of legitimation of Greek heritage in the Medieval Muslim culture.

The text focuses on the concept of modern political democracy as a system of governance with its ... more The text focuses on the concept of modern political democracy as a system of governance with its specific patterns, rules, practices and strategies. It discusses its compatibility with the Islamic tradition and the competing models and concepts of Muslim political order that have a huge effect on the current events in the Middle East and Islamic societies.

Gutenberg, 2022

This first translation into Bulgarian is accompanied by an introduction to the ideational world o... more This first translation into Bulgarian is accompanied by an introduction to the ideational world of the Great Sheikh and by a detailed commentary that presents the main symbols in the collection in their Arabic and mystical context.
"Тълкувател на страстите" на Ибн ал-Араби: Символ и значение;
The Interpreter of Desires of Ibn al-Arabi: Symbols and Meanings (in Bulgarian)
ISBN 9786191762156

The book presents a nuanced picture of the translating movement in the Abbasid caliphate, complic... more The book presents a nuanced picture of the translating movement in the Abbasid caliphate, complicated and deepened by the consideration of translation as a complex social phenomenon; as a collection of historical, biographical and ideological elements that changed its dynamics from the beginning of the 8th century until its slow decline in the second half of the 10th century.
ISBN: 978-954-617-132-0