Arab intellectual history has been experiencing a resurgence of late, positioned as it is between the ascendancy of global intellectual history and the continued resilience of area studies. Such a precipitous conjuncture has led to a proliferation of Arab intellectual histories that belie the orientalist fallacy of the region as a “no idea producing area,” as once infelicitously described by Charles F. Gallagher. And yet the task of scholars of the Arab world is surely more complex than merely adding intellectuals and writers who have heretofore been ignored to the catalogue of intellectual history.

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重新思考阿拉伯思想史：认识论、历史主义、世俗主义

阿拉伯思想史最近经历了复兴，它处于全球思想史的优势与地区研究的持续弹性之间。这种危急关头导致阿拉伯知识史的泛滥，掩盖了该地区作为“无思想生产区”的东方主义谬误，正如查尔斯·F·加拉格尔曾经粗鲁地描述的那样。然而，阿拉伯世界学者的任务肯定比仅仅将此前被忽视的知识分子和作家添加到思想史目录中更为复杂。