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Jamal Daher

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
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Jamal Daher (born in Nazareth in Palestine) is a Palestinian writer and novelist, lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Birzeit University. He also served as Head of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies and Director of the Master's Program in Arabic Studies at the university, in addition to being a researcher in the field of logic and pre-Islamic Arabs. Gamal Daher has published a number of books and novels, perhaps the most prominent of which are the book “From Arab Civilization to Arab-Islamic Civilization” and “The Night Has Become the Farthest.” He also published research books similar to “Introduction to the Science of Logic” which he followed with the book “The Limits of Knowledge” in which he talked about the problems Related to the principle of non-contradiction, and thus Jamal Daher has completed this series, and this book was preceded by another book, which is “Rules in Logic, Foundations and Concepts,” in which he discussed the concept of logic, its foundations, concepts related to it, as well as its rules, before returning to the world of novels through the philosophical novel. Nothing.” As for his most famous literary work, he is the book “Al-Khalil bin Jaljal”.

 

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The Palestinian writer’s first published and well-known work was the book “When the Place Comes,” which was published by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing sometime in the year 2000 with about 110 pages. Jamal highlighted in this work what is known as the multiple levels of narration, and was distinguished by what some critics said was the dense movement of the text with fertile connotations. Daher tried to answer in this book the question of the search for human identity at its multiple levels, so he looked at what he described as structural places as well as through times, but he was keen to stay away from what he called in the pages of the book the myth of reality, as he limped into the axis of his talk on the traps of crude realism as he describes them and which he sees It is closer to reflection than to the art of storytelling.

 

Sometime in 2005, Gamal Daher published a new novel entitled "And the Night Has Become Shorter" by Dar Al-Adab in Lebanon, with about 144 pages. In this novel, Daher relied on abstract narration, a narration that does not get involved in the specific details of time, place and conditions surrounding the characters. Jamal spoke on a number of topics and even tried to answer many questions, including how the world was formed, what is death, is life possible without pleasure, and what is the relationship of man to time and action, and other thorny questions. The answer to all these questions and others from the writer came in a story that tells the fate of a village whose idle people surrendered and preferred to enjoy laziness and loose bones, in contrast to another story of a caravan that included a man and his beautiful wife and his sons and sisters, but the man died suddenly, the wife was violated, and the family was lost and extinct, so the dead man turned To a story - as the writer says - that the wife narrates.

 

In his book “Basics of Logic: Foundations and Concepts” (which is the second book in a series of two books), which was published by Dar Al-Shorouk for Publishing and Distribution (ISIN: 9789957004271) in 2012 in about 208 pages, Daher discussed what he called improper forms that would lead It highlights problems at the core of modern logic. In his analysis, Daher focused on modern logic and explained how his and others' approach to this logic is a renunciation of logic in its entirety. Gamal Daher continued his book on logic and returned this time to an introduction to this science through the book that was published under the title “Introduction to the Science of Logic” in the Department of Philosophy of Science and Epistemology. The book was published by Dar Al-Farabi (ISIN: 139786144322437) in 2014 in about 326 pages, and it was intended - as the writer explained later - to introduce the science of logic, its subject and ways to use it, and also aimed - despite being dedicated to the student of philosophy - to simplify this science and make it Easy to handle, to become an available tool used by every student in his studies and in his daily life without the need for a teacher.

 

The book included several chapters, including a chapter on dealing with different types of texts in kind and content, in order to explain the foundations, rules and laws of logic. Daher believes that most Arabic logic books in particular and foreign books in general enumerate the rules and laws without explaining them or clarifying their necessity, unlike what he did. Daher also believes that when each person relies on a special logic that is compatible with what his mind accepts, there will be no possibility of consensus about opinion, and the possibility of distinguishing between right and wrong will be lost, so that there will be no measure for classifying ideas between right and wrong.

 

Back in 2013, specifically on May 31, Gamal Daher published his book titled “The Nothingness” about Dar Al-Farabi (ISIN: 9789953719344) in about 191 pages. The story of this novel revolved between the sacred and the profane, in which Daher tried to read reality and the presence of religion in people's lives and the reference world. Daher in Nothingness presented a vision and approach to the philosophy of nothingness and wandering that accompanies man from his birth until his death. Jamal moved between times and places and presented the questions in his mind about this vast universe in which he lives.

 

“Where is your circus?” one of them asked, an adulteress in her forties, full of body and breasts, she had a thin face and red lips of pomegranate color, her hair was scattered black, she wore a village dress, and her lips were as delicate as my fingers and smelled as dark as hers. Above her forehead and three under her lips. - Quote from the novel “Nothing” by the Palestinian writer Jamal Daher

Daher published a new novel, "Al-Khalil bin Jaljal", which is considered among the most famous books he wrote. The novel on the authority of Riyadh Al Rayes for Books and Publishing was published under ISBN 9789953216454 on December 10, 2016 in about 149 pages. Then he published the book "From Arab Civilization to Arab-Islamic Civilization", in which he traces the movement of thought, from Arab to Arab-Islamic civilization, that is related to the questioning of the Divine Essence and the issue of fate in particular, even the Mu'tazilites, and it appears that, in the Arab-Islamic civilization, they do not depart from Being an extension of an intellectual movement that developed in the space of civilization>

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