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'''Abdallah Laroui''' ( born November 7, 1933, in [[Azemmour]]) (Arabic: عبدالله العروي) is a [[Morocco|Moroccan]] historian and novelist writing in Arabic and French. He is considered one of [[Morocco]]'s leading intellectuals.<ref>Jean Jacques Waardenburg, ''Islam: historical, social, and political perspectives'', Walter de Gruyter, 2002, p.145-147</ref><ref>Youssef M. Choueiri, ''Arab history and the nation-state: a study in modern Arab historiography'', Routledge, 1989, p.165</ref>

Laroui taught at the University Mohammed V in [[Rabat]] until 2000. He has written five novels (o.a. L’Exil  (Sindbad-Actes Sud, 1998)).<ref>Salim Jay, ''Dictionnaire des écrivains marocains'', Eddif, 2005 , pp 243-244</ref>

==Works==
*''Les Carnets d'Idriss'', 2008
*''Le Maroc et Hassan II'', 2005 
*''Islam et Histoire : essai d’épistémologie'', Albin Michel, 1999
*''Islam et modernité'', La Découverte, 1986
*''L’Histoire du Maghreb : un essai de synthèse'', Librarie Francois Maspero, 1970
*''La Crise des intellectuels arabes : traditionalisme ou historicisme ?'', La Découverte, 1978
*''Les Origines sociales et culturelles du nationalisme marocain (1830-1912)'', Paris, 1977
*''L’Idéologie arabe contemporaine'' 1967 - La Découverte, 1982 

;In translation:
*''The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism?'' (1976) (ISBN 0-520-02971-2)
*''The History of the Maghreb: An Interpretive Essay'', Ralph Manheim, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).

==See also==
*[[Abdelwahab Benmansour]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Wayback |url=http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/laroui.htm |title=Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust? |date=20110719214457 }}. Lecture by Abdallah Laroui, Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow, (Lecture delivered at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Providence, RI).

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