Theory of Reason Critique of the Arab Mind

The idea for this book, “Critique of the Critique of the Arab Mind, Theory of Reason,” came about after George Tarabishi came across the foreign source of a quotation that Al-Jabri had used to support his theses in his book, The Formation of the Arab Mind. Tarabishi was drawn to the foreign source because he found both the spirit and the literal meaning of the quotation, which spoke the opposite of what Al-Jabri had said.
He turned his tongue and began searching, but among the hundreds of quotations from Al-Jabri on The Formation of the Arab Mind, he found only a few that had been distorted, falsified, or used contrary to their intended meaning. He then turned to The Formation of the Arab Mind, reading it with a new eye and strict critical examination. He then discovered that the falsity lay in the problems Al-Jabri had raised, not just in the supporting evidence and its context. Thus, the idea for this project to critique criticism was born, the first part of which is presented to the reader under the title “Theory of Reason.” This is a book whose pages we turn, relying in turn on the reader’s critical sense, perhaps revealing glimpses of another critique on the horizon.