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Prologues, est une revue maghrébine du livre. C`est surtout, depuis avril 1993, date de parution du premier numéro, la voix d`un groupe d`intellectuels qui entendent fermement rénover de l`intérieur la pensée arabe contemporaine en la livrant à l`analyse et au débat. Cela, Prologues le fait en abordant des thèmes qui sont au centre des préoccupations du monde arabe contemporain. »
Meryem SEBTI
Le Journal - du 26 janvier au 1er février 1998
Copyright © 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 by Prologues: revue maghrébine du livre.
ISSN: 1113-2426
Prologues: revue maghrébine du livre is a bilingual (French-Arabic), private, nonprofit, scientific, and cultural journal, published quarterly in Casablanca, Morocco. Each issue is devoted to a particular theme and features scholarly analyses, philosophical reflections, critical essays, cultural studies, and interviews.
Prologues serves as a forum for the critical discussion and debate of cultural issues of central concern to people in the Maghreb (North Africa) and the Mediterranean region. While facilitating communication among social scientists, scholars, and intellectuals from the North and the South, it seeks to reach out to wider publics, including younger and older generations. Although literacy levels in the Maghreb are on the rise, public exposure to the « world of ideas » remains limited. With its critical book reviews, interviews, and essays, Prologues provides vital access to this important world.
To date, eighteen issues of Prologues have been published and distributed on a relatively large scale in Morocco and, via subscription and exchange, to readers in Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Palestine, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Today, Prologues enjoys an international readership that includes scholars, professionals, librarians, researchers, and ordinary readers interested in the Maghreb. Topics explored in past issues of Prologues include:
* Human Rights: From the Universal to the Particular;
* Shari'a and Positive Law in Contemporary Arab-Muslim Societies;
* Ethics, Culture, and Democracy.
* The Importance of (Re)thinking Politics;
* Women and Social Sciences in the Maghreb: Tradition, Mutation, Aspirations;
* Ways of Renovation in Contemporary Arab-Islamic Thought;
* Readings in Contemporary Political Thought.
* Renewal of the Novel in the Maghreb;
* Presences of Ibn Rushd;
* Young Nations-States and the Challenge of Globalization;
* Law and Societies in the Maghreb.
* Language and culture in the Maghreb.
* The re-writing of the history.
* The most influential books in the 20th century.
* Religion between popular practices and political contest.
* The state in the Maghreb and the challenge of globalization.
* The cultural heritage of the Maghreb.
* The economic development and liberalism.
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Academicians, scholars, researchers and others interested in the works of the Maghreb or arab world.
The seminars organized by Prologues during 1995 shed light on an important current of thought in Muslim countries. Until recently, isolated individuals, most of them advanced scholars, had expressed disagreement over the way Islamic dogmas and laws are invoked and used in the political arena. It is clear now that there is a large convergence between many of these individuals and, since many of them are renowned and influential thinkers, that they represent far more than a mere collection of points of view. We can now consider that a current of « enlightened », « tolerant », or « prodemocratic » Islam exists and has effectively begun to express itself with clarity and energy.
The seminars organized by Prologues provided insights on what this current may lead to, especially on the ways it may influence the attitudes toward democracy and the role of religion in politics. The discussions among these intellectuals have shown that the democratic alternative is probably closer to Islamic ethics or, at the very least, not incompatible with them. However, the relevance of democracy for our societies is still not accepted and seems to be considered by many as a new utopia. Calls for its implementation in Muslim societies appear sometimes as a kind of « wishful thinking », or as a new cover for old political manoeuvres. The relevance of democracy, the ways by which it may be consolidated in our societies, the arrangements needed with particular dogmas, and with some conceptions inherited from « orthodox » elaborations of the past, call for important theoretical work.
Undoubtedly, this is not something that a journal - however important it may be - can realize on its own. It should be noted that increasingly, these issues have begun to attract attention from many thinkers, and that the debate seems to be focusing on the practical aspects of the democratization of Muslim societies.
The experience of 1995 has also shown that, although seminars are important in clarifying issues and attitudes, in enhancing theoretical awareness, and in facilitating communication among thinkers working on similar problems, the effect they have on society at large is often very limited, if not altogether nonexistent. The seminars, even if they gather active and influential individuals, need to be followed by intensive dissemination work. It is our conviction that the action undertaken in 1995 needs to be followed by an ongoing debate and a special effort to reach wider sections of the public.
Prologues considers, therefore, that it is of the utmost necessity to complete this operation with the publication of a series of issues specially designed to be accessible to the largest possible audience.
As a result, the two others programs does not include the organization of seminars. It concentrates, rather, on actions aimed at making the ideas presented in the seminars and the debates around them much easier to understand by those who are not specialized scholars, especially the youth educated in public schools. It also hopes to make each issue of Prologues accessible to a larger geographical areas (in the Middle East, the Maghreb, and Muslim communities in Western Europe).
Finally, it attempts to facilitate communication among « enlightened » Muslim thinkers, especially those who write in different languages (mainly Arabic, English, French, and eventually Persian and Turkish).
Editée au Maroc, bilingue, cette revue est un véritable espace de rencontre entre la tradition musulmane et la culture moderne
Gilles KEPEL
Le Monde des livres - Vendredi 16/01/98
« Avec cette dixième livraison, la revue trimestrielle Prologues consolide sa position originale, essentielle dans le débat d`idées qui se déroute aujourd`hui dans le monde arabe - et qui trouve une résonance particulière au Maroc.
« [...] Prologues réussit aussi à être effectivement bilingue, c'est-à-dire à construire un espace de rencontre entre auteurs préférant écrire en français ou en arabe, dédramatisant par là les relations parfois conflictuelles entre "arabisants" et "francisants", enlevant ainsi à l`usage de l`une ou l`autre langue son caractère idéologique. Prologues et Mouqadimmât ("Prologues" en arabe) ont le même nombre de page, mais les articles y sont différents: la maîtrise des enjeux intellectuels que soulève cette question centrale de la "rénovation dans la pensée arabo-islamique contemporaine" exige que les francisants lisent les arabisants et vice versa, car, sans l`apport de chacun, le débat est tronqué.
« [...] Ces intellectuels arabes médiateurs qui s`expriment dans Prologues étaient restés à la fois discrets et dispersés, pris entre le marteau fondamentaliste des islamistes et l`enclume des Etats dispensateurs d`une modernité répressive. Or les temps semblent venus pour que leurs voix se fassent entendre, quand émergent dans les pays d`islam les exigences d`une culture démocratique et d`une société civile, portée par des classes moyennes en expansion. C`est ce discours des musulmans de demain, de la génération intellectuelle "post-islamiste" auquel donne accès cette livraison de Prologues. »
Dans "Prologues" les penseurs européens présentés par des Maghrébins
Anouar JIHAD
« Si le monde de la pensée dispose à présent d`une théorie proprement dite politique, c`est grâce à une centaine d`ouvrages désignés par des intellectuels européens comme étant les plus influents depuis la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Prologues, la revue maghrébine du livre, revient dans sa présente livraison [Prologues N. 11/12] sur quelques-uns de leurs auteurs. Mieux. Elle lance le défi du débat avec leurs idées. Pour le dire, elle a donné la parole à des intellectuels marocains. Ces derniers ont réfléchi, approché, analysé, synthétisé les oeuvres phares de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, toutes références et préférences gardées. »
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