Shaker Al-Nabulsi

Shaker Al-Nabulsi

Shaker Al-Nabulsi - Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi is a Jordanian Arab author scholar and Muslim reformer. He has authored 32 books and written widely-cited articles on Islam and Arab governments. He is a signatory of the St Petersburg Declaration which advances the creed of Muslim reform to the world.

In an article for the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyasa, he asked why Islamic religious scholars haven't issued a fatwa against bin Laden.

In 2006 he authored an open letter to letter to Saudi King 'Abdallah Ibn 'Abd Al-'Aziz, demanding an investigation into a doctorial dissertation submitted to the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University that named 200 modern Arab intellectuals and authors whom the author accuses of heresy.

Bibliography

*Fadwa Clashes with Poetry - A study of the poetry of Fadwa Touqan (1963)
*Open Endings - A Study in the Literature of Antoine Chekhov (1963)
*Fire walks on Earth - Essays in Arab Life (1985)
*A Doctrine of the Sword and of the Neck - A Study in the Literature of Najeeb Mahfooz (1985)
*The Distance Between the Sword and Neck - A Study in the Saudi Short Story (1985)
*The Loaf of Fire and Wheat - A Study of Modern Arab Poetry (1986)
*The Light and the Toy - A Study of the Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1986)
*The River East - A study in modern Jordanian culture (1986)
*Settlement Train - A study in the Palestinian compromise (1986)
*The Earth's Madman - A Study of the Poetry of Mahmood Darwiesh (1987)
*Snow Pillow - Arabs and American policy (1987)
*The Brackish Age - The conflict between Arab culture and politics (1988)
*The Third Culture - Experiences with the Japanese culture (1988)
*The Wooden Bird - A study in the failure of Arab Education (1988)
*Saudi's Attainable Future - A Developmental Research (1988)
*Travail of the Sand - Papers in the development and culture of the Gulf (1988)
*The Revolution of Heritage - A study in the thought of Khalid Mohammed Khalid (1989)
*An Attempt to Leave the White Color - Papers on Arab Politics (1989)
*Unfolding the Memory of a Woman - A Study in the Literature of Ghadah Alssamman (1990)
*Orbit of The Desert - A Study in the Literature of Abdulrahman Muneef (1991)
*Stoning with Words - A study of several modern Arab thinkers (1991)
*Growth of Silence - A Study of Modern Saudi Poetry (1992)
*Rise of the Palms - A Study of the Poetry of Sa'di Yousif (1992)
*Splendors of Freedom in the Arabic Novel - A Study in the Literature of Ten Arab Novelists (1992)
*Aesthetics of Locale in the Novel - A Study in the Literature of Ghalib Halasa (1994)
*The Jordanian Novel and it's Place in Arab Literature ( A co-written paper) (1994)
*Songs within Dwellings- The Musical Life of Shiekh Imam Easa (Two Volumes) (1998)
*Eaten by the Wolf - The artistic life of Naji Al-Ali (1999)
*The Age of Lolling and Subjects - The cultural scene to Al-Sham region during the Ottoman empire (1999)
*The Sultan - A political guide for the preservation of rule (2000)
*Arab Thought in the 20th Century (Three Volumes) (2001)
*Wealth and the Crescent :The Economic Factors for the Emergence of Islam (2001)

References

* [http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP116306#_edn1 Recent Attacks by Islamists on Arab Liberals – A Sign of Distress and Imminent Defeat]
* [http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sd&ID=SP78604 The Arabs are Still Slaves to a Medieval Mentality]


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