Zaki Naguib Mahmoud
Philosopher, Author
1905 – 1993
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Who was Zaki Naguib Mahmoud?
Zaki Naguib Mahmoud was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him. Mahmoud adhered to logical positivism and adopted science interpretation with social motivations to reconcile the Arab tradition with modernism. Mahmoud defines the "Arab tradition" as the configuration of techniques by which our ancestors lived. And he viewed logical positivism as the spirit of "Modernism".
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- Born
- Feb 2, 1905
Damietta - Also known as
- Zakī Najīb Maḥmūd
- Nationality
- Egypt
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 8, 1993
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on July 23, 2013
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