Zaki Naguib Mahmoud was an Egypt

Egypt

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ian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him. Mahmoud adhered to logical positivism and adopted science interpretation with social motivations to reconcile the Arab tradition with modernism.
Mahmoud defines the "Arab tradition" as the configuration of techniques by which our ancestors lived. And he viewed logical positivism

Logical positivism

Logical positivism is a philosophy that combines empiricism—the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge—with a version of rationalism incorporating mathematical and logico-linguistic constructs and deductions of epistemology.It may be considered as a type of analytic...

 as the spirit of "Modernism

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

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Works

Zaki Naguib has authored many books and translations in addition to his numerous articles in magazines and newspapers including the Egyptian Al Ahram.

A - In Philosophy

• On Positivist Logic, two parts
• On Formal Logic, 1951
• On Philosophy of Science, 1952
• David Hume, 1951
• The Myth of Metaphysics, 1953
• Theory of Knowledge, 1956
• Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
  
  , 1956
• The Live of Thought in the New World, 1956
• Toward a Scientific Philosophy, 1959
• The Artist East, 1960
• Jaber Ibn Hayan
  Geber
  Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān, often known simply as Geber, was a prominent polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geologist, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. Born and educated in Tus, he later traveled to Kufa...
  
  , 1961

B - In Arabic Modernity

• Renewal of Arabic Thought, 1973
• The Rational and the Irrational in Our Intellectual heritage, 1975
• Our Culture in Front of Contemporary Time, 1976
• In Our Mental Live, 1979
• With Poets, 1980
• This Time and Its Culture, 1980
• From a Philosophical Point of View, 1980
• Preoccupations of Intellectuals, 1981
• Thoughts and Positions, 1983
• A New Society Or a Disaster, 1983
• A Story of A Mind, 1984
• In a Conjunction, 1985
• About Freedom I am Talking, 1986
• An Islamic Vision, 1987
• On Modernization of Arabic Culture, 1988
• An Arabic Between Two Cultures, 1990
• The Outcome of the Years, 1991

C - Literature Writings

• The Lands of The Dreams, 1939
• Shakespeare, 1943
• The Paradise of the Fool, 1947
• Shreds of Glass, 1947
• A Sunrise from the West, 1950
• With the Revolution on the Doors, 1955
• Days in America, 1955
• A Story of a Psych, 1965

D - Writings in English

• Translations of Al-Akkad Poetry, 1945
• PhD Dissertation titled 'Self Determination", 1947
• The Land and People of Egypt, 1956

a - In Philosophy

• Four Dialogues of Plato
  Plato
  Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
  
  , 1936
• The Rich and the Poor, H. G. Wales, 1937
• History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
  
  , 1954
• Logic, a Theory of Research, John Dewy, 1959,

b - In Collaboration with Ahmad Amin

• The Story of Greek Philosophy, 1935
• The Story of Modern Philosophy, 1936
• The Story of Literature, in three parts
• On Ancient and medieval Literature, 1943
• On Modern Literature
  Modern literature
  Modern literature can either refer to*modernist literature *modern literature ....
  
  , 1945
• On Eastern and Western Literature in the 19th century, 1948

c - In Cultural History and Literature Critique

• The Arts of Literature, H. T Charlton, 1944
• I Preferred Freedom, Vector Crafetchenco, 1944
• The Story of Civilization, Will Durant
  Will Durant
  William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975...
  
  , Thee books of the 1st volume,
• The Appearance of Civilization, 1950
• India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
   and its Neighbors, 1951
• Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  , 1951
• The Heritage of Middle Ages, 1967

External links

• Zaki Naguib Mahmoud at Egypt State Information Service
• Zaki Naguib Mahmoud at Arab Philosophers