Wael Abu-'Uksa
Dr. Wael Abu-ʿUksa, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), is a political scientist specializing in conceptual history and political thought in the Middle East. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and a Polonsky postdoctoral fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
His research combines comparative political philosophy and Middle East studies. In his works, he explores the history of ideas from a linguistic perspective that focuses on the evolution of languages. Through the lens of conceptual history, part of these works scrutinize the history of central political ideas such as liberalism, socialism, and democracy in the Middle East from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Among his publications:
-Freedom in the Arab World: Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
-“The Construction of the Concepts ‘Democracy' and ‘Republic' in Arabic in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean, 1798–1878”, Journal of the History of Ideas 80, no. 2 (2019): 249-270. (61.36, 2018).
Recent Publications
-“The Construction of the Concepts ‘Democracy' and ‘Republic' in Arabic in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean, 1798–1878”, Journal of the History of Ideas 80, no. 2 (2019): 249-270.
“Imagining Modernity: Language and Genealogy of Modernity in 19th Century”, Middle East Studies, 55, no. 5 (2019): 671-682.
-“Enlightened Religion and the Revival of Eastern Civilization in Fransis al-Marrash's Thought”, The European Legacy, 25 (2020): 776-789.
-“The Premodern History of “Civilisation” in Arabic: Rifāʿa al-Ṭahṭāwī and his Medieval Sources,” Die Welt des Islams, 62, no.3-4 (2022): 389-418.
Address: Department of Political Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. Office: 4307
Page: http://politics.huji.ac.il/people/%D7%95%D7%90%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95-%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%94
His research combines comparative political philosophy and Middle East studies. In his works, he explores the history of ideas from a linguistic perspective that focuses on the evolution of languages. Through the lens of conceptual history, part of these works scrutinize the history of central political ideas such as liberalism, socialism, and democracy in the Middle East from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Among his publications:
-Freedom in the Arab World: Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
-“The Construction of the Concepts ‘Democracy' and ‘Republic' in Arabic in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean, 1798–1878”, Journal of the History of Ideas 80, no. 2 (2019): 249-270. (61.36, 2018).
Recent Publications
-“The Construction of the Concepts ‘Democracy' and ‘Republic' in Arabic in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean, 1798–1878”, Journal of the History of Ideas 80, no. 2 (2019): 249-270.
“Imagining Modernity: Language and Genealogy of Modernity in 19th Century”, Middle East Studies, 55, no. 5 (2019): 671-682.
-“Enlightened Religion and the Revival of Eastern Civilization in Fransis al-Marrash's Thought”, The European Legacy, 25 (2020): 776-789.
-“The Premodern History of “Civilisation” in Arabic: Rifāʿa al-Ṭahṭāwī and his Medieval Sources,” Die Welt des Islams, 62, no.3-4 (2022): 389-418.
Address: Department of Political Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. Office: 4307
Page: http://politics.huji.ac.il/people/%D7%95%D7%90%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95-%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%94
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The article sheds light on the intellectual biography and theology of Khrīsṭufūrus Jibāra (d. 1901), a Christian Eastern Orthodox archimandrite who had a falling out with the church because of his controversial beliefs. Jibāra was born in Damascus and lived in Beirut, Cairo, Moscow, New York and Boston. He believed that harmonization between Christianity, Judaism and Islam would provide a remedy for religious conflicts and was a precondition for peace. Living in the second half of the nineteenth century, Jibāra developed a unique political theology that was shaped against a background of religious conflicts in Greater Syria, the Ottoman state policy of Pan-Islamism, and the global religious reaction to secularism. Influenced by ancient anti-Trinitarian Christian traditions and by contemporary puritan Unitarian theology, he developed a doctrine that he called ‘the straight path’, which challenged traditional Islam, traditional Christianity and secularism. His unique views shed light on the transreligious postulations of the reformist Islamic movement and present an exceptional attempt to reform Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
The article sheds light on the intellectual biography and theology of Khrīsṭufūrus Jibāra (d. 1901), a Christian Eastern Orthodox archimandrite who had a falling out with the church because of his controversial beliefs. Jibāra was born in Damascus and lived in Beirut, Cairo, Moscow, New York and Boston. He believed that harmonization between Christianity, Judaism and Islam would provide a remedy for religious conflicts and was a precondition for peace. Living in the second half of the nineteenth century, Jibāra developed a unique political theology that was shaped against a background of religious conflicts in Greater Syria, the Ottoman state policy of Pan-Islamism, and the global religious reaction to secularism. Influenced by ancient anti-Trinitarian Christian traditions and by contemporary puritan Unitarian theology, he developed a doctrine that he called ‘the straight path’, which challenged traditional Islam, traditional Christianity and secularism. His unique views shed light on the transreligious postulations of the reformist Islamic movement and present an exceptional attempt to reform Eastern Orthodox Christianity.