Mohamed Habib Marzouki


Mohamed Habib Marzouki is a Tunisian academic, philosopher and translator. Along intellectual work, he involved in politics for a short time following the Jasmine revolution. However, by the time he resigned, he declared his intention to step out of political work for good and count on writing to incite social change.
A central theme of Marzouki's thought is reconciling, or even unifying, between philosophy and religion. According to him, this is the only possible way to bring about actual reform in the Islamic world in particular, and the world in general. To achieve this, he argues, muslim nations must overcome the ideas of Arabic Renaissance so that they can resume what he calls their current civilizational mission in the context of globalization.

Early life and education

He was born in Ferryville, French Protectorate of Tunisia. The thirteenth in a family of fifteen children, he obtained a philosophy degree at the Sorbonne University in 1972. He taught at the University of Tunis between 1980 and 2006 and at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.

Political career

He was elected to the Constituent Assembly as a representative of the Islamist party Ennahda for the district of Tunis on 23 October 2011, and was subsequently appointed advisor, with cabinet rank, to the Culture and the Education ministers. He later resigned from the assembly on 6 March 2013, and returned to teaching philosophy. Upon retirement, he left a bitter note to conclude his experience in which he accused Ennahda, then-governing party, of nepotism and exploiting power as if it were a "spoil of war".

Own works

Co-authored

Translations

from German

  1. Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, published in two volumes:
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    from English

from French

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