Taha Abdul Rahman

Taha Abdul Rahman

Taha Abd al-Rahman (born 1944 in El Jadida) is a Moroccan philosopher specializing in logic, the philosophy of language, and ethics. He has been considered one of the most prominent philosophers and thinkers in the field of Arab-Islamic discourse since the early 1970s.
Taha Abd al-Rahman received his primary education in El Jadida, then continued his secondary education in Casablanca, then at Mohammed V University in Rabat, where he earned a BA in philosophy. He continued his studies at the Sorbonne University, where he earned a second BA in philosophy and a third-cycle doctorate in 1972 with a thesis on language and philosophy: A Treatise on the Linguistic Structures of the Study of Existence. He then earned a doctorate in 1985 for his dissertation on argumentative and natural reasoning and its models. He taught logic and philosophy of language at Mohammed V University in Rabat from 1970 until his retirement in 2005. He is a member of the International Society for Argumentative Studies and its representative in Morocco, a member of the European Centre for Argumentative Studies, and president of the Wisdom Forum for Thinkers and Researchers in Morocco. He has twice won the Morocco Book Award and the ISESCO Prize for Islamic Thought and Philosophy in 2006. He also received the Mohammed VI Prize for Thought and Islamic Studies on January 13, 2014.

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