• Born in Ain Ghazal, Palestine, 1939
• PhD in Philosophy from Sorbonne, 1968
• Lecturer at Jordanian University, 1968-1988
• Lecturer at Kuwait University, 1988-1990
• Lecturer at College De France, 1990-1991
• Lecturer at Jordanian Women University, 1991

Other Work Experiences

• Head of Philosophy Dept., Jordanian University, 1976-1978
• Deputy Dean of Literature College, Jordanian University, 1978-1979
• Dean of Literature College, Jordanian University, 1979-1980
• Dean of Scientific Research, Jordanian University, 1980-1981
• Dean of Human and Social Studies College, Jordanian Women’s University, 1991-1993
• Dean of Literature College, Applied Sciences University, 1993-1994
• Dean of Literature College, Jordanian Women’s University, 1994-1996

Awards

• Tunisia’s Academic Palm Frond Honour
• Palestine’s Jerusalem Honour of Culture, Arts and literature
• Jordan’s State Merit Award of Sociology

Decision of the General Secretariat

A serious researcher whose studies have a common methodology and a broad vision, within a frame of rationalism that uses elements inherited from Arab-Islamic heritage and modern western culture.

Famous Works

• Islamic Scholars’ Bases of Advancement in the Modern Arab World
• Theory of Heritage
• The Trouble: Religious and Political debate in Islam
• The Way to Future: Ideas and Powers in the Arab’s Foreseen Times
• The Past Today: Formations and Ways of the Arab Intellectual experience
• Towards Opened Islamic Mind
• Meaning of Salafiya
• Many other books in French as well as essays and researches