د. سمير حسين زيدان
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences. Writing in Arabic and French on modern Arab thought, Islamic intellectual history, Gulf anthropology, philosophy education, and the philosophy of women in modern thought.
About the author
جسرٌ بين الفكر الإصلاحي العربي والفلسفة المعاصرة
Dr. Samir Hussein Zeidan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences specialising in modern Arab thought, Islamic intellectual history, social philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy education, with more than twenty-five years of academic experience in university teaching, curriculum development, teacher education, and academic supervision.
His research explores the relationship between Arab reformist thought and contemporary philosophical and social theories through interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, from the intellectual legacy of the Al-Manar School to mediating institutions, social cohesion, and Gulf studies.
A significant strand of his scholarship is devoted to comparative philosophical studies of women in modern thought, examining representations of women in positivist and liberal philosophies through critical comparisons with Islamic intellectual traditions, and to bringing the works of Maria Deraismes into Arabic for the first time.
Through his research, writing, and translation projects, he seeks to build an integrated intellectual framework that brings Arab reformist thought into dialogue with contemporary philosophy and social theory, while contributing to the advancement of philosophy education and comparative philosophical scholarship.
The library
مؤلفات د. سمير زيدان
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21 books
المرأة في «المغني»
Instead of asking whether Islamic law raised or lowered women's standing, the book reads Ibn Qudama's al-Mughni continuously and treats standing as a position defined within each relationship, tested on five contracts and a Hanafi counterpart.
السفرُ بين الحدّ والمخالطة
"Travel is a kind of movement and mingling": from al-Ghazali's sentence, the book asks which half the legal rulings were built on, and reads modern travel to propose the concept of a "transfer of function" — mingling without knowing.
«أسرارُ الحجّ» عند الغزاليّ: الصورةُ والمعنى
Read for nine centuries as lofty exhortation, al-Ghazali's "Secrets of the Pilgrimage" is also material for anthropology. A station-by-station reading separates the question of effect from that of cause, and answers al-Shatibi's critique from al-Ghazali's own words.
الإنسان الإماراتيّ
Not a search for fixed traits of the Emirati person but for how they are formed — in the majlis, coffee and talli, the sea, the palm and the federation — proposing the concept of "transformative continuity".
القرآن الكريم والمنظومة الأخلاقية
The crisis is not that values collapsed but that the conditions of their production fell away. A complete survey of the Qur'an builds a conception of rushd (maturity) on trusteeship, stewardship and the balance.
من استنبات التفلسف إلى إدماجه في الحياة
Five experiments in taking philosophy outside the academy, from a French "house of philosophy" to Gulf publishers, asking what survives when a practice moves from one setting to another.
من الطبيعة إلى الحكم
Not what Comte, Deraismes and Rida said about women, but how what they said became binding judgement. A tracing, through the French and Arabic sources, of the "addition" that turns an observation into a law.
حواء في المسرح
Two texts by Maria Deraismes in Arabic, "Eve on the Stage" and her 1872 reply to Dumas fils, with an extended study of how images of women are manufactured and how they can be dismantled.
الحِجاج والمناظرة في كتاب «الوحي المحمدي»
How does a scholar who never studied disputation debate four opponents in one book? A complete survey of Rida's 1933 text reveals a man who "debates in deed without the terminology" and yields the "law of transfer".
حواء في الإنسانية
The first Arabic translation of Maria Deraismes' landmark 1891 text, with an analytical study and notes that bring it into dialogue with the Islamic perspective on dignity and justice.
قاسم أمين بين المنهج الإصلاحي والاتجاه الليبرالي
Should Qasim Amin be read through the question of women, or through the intellectual project that produced it? A relational, systemic reading of reform, freedom, education, power and nation in his work.
التأسيس المنطقي لآداب البحث والمناظرة
A systematic treatment uniting the rules of logic, the arts of argumentation and the classical adab of inquiry and debate, from the Aristotelian heritage to the needs of contemporary discussion.
تطوير الدرس الفلسفي
How can philosophy be taught as thinking practised rather than knowledge memorised? A comparative and practical guide to lesson design, problem situations, philosophical writing and assessment.
المرأة وقضاياها في الفكر الحديث والمعاصر
Five parts and eighteen chapters trace how the question of women has tested every conception of humanity, in dialogue with Mill, Wollstonecraft, Beauvoir, Butler, Saba Mahmood and the Islamic reformists.
المرأة في الفلسفة الوضعية
An Arabic translation and critical study of Périclès Grimanelli's La Femme et le Positivisme, exposing how positivism shaped modern conceptions of women's nature, roles and education.
أنثروبولوجيا المؤسسات الوسيطة
How does human society remain possible? Starting from philosophical anthropology, the book reads the Gulf majlis and the Omani falaj as mediating institutions that carry the burden of orientation between individual and state.
المرأة في الفلسفة الليبرالية
What happens to an idea when it crosses cultural borders? A comparative reading of Mill and Qasim Amin on freedom, equality and the making of the discourse of women's emancipation.
السلفية والغرب
A phenomenological and analytical study of how the Al-Manar school engaged Western modernity, rereading Rashid Rida's legacy and the concepts of ijtihad and shura.
Le salafisme et l'Occident
A philosophical and epistemological reading of the relationship between Islamic reformism and Western modernity, taking the journal Al-Manar as its analytical space. The French edition of "Salafism and the West".
السيادة العاطفية
How does a community stay cohesive in a space that does not match its borders? The book proposes an "affective economy of sovereignty" and the concept of sovereign fatigue, read through the 2017 crisis.
قطر من الوجود القبلي إلى ريادة الرمز العالمي
How does a small polity reach an influence out of proportion to its size? A reading of the structure of transformation, from the pearl economy of 1862 to the state that now hosts the world.
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Studies in Gulf Anthropology and Society — A four-volume series examining social cohesion, symbolic transformation, mediating institutions and the formation of identity in the Gulf, from Qatar to the UAE.
Maria Deraismes in Arabic — A translation project bringing the works of the nineteenth-century French orator and thinker Maria Deraismes to Arabic readers, each volume accompanied by a critical study.
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