A INTERPRETAÇÃO LACOSTEANA DA OBRA DE IBN KHALDUN
COLONIALISMO, REVOLUÇÃO ARGELINA E SITUAÇÃO DE SUBDESENVOLVIMENTO (1956-1966)
Abstract
It analyses the successive positions of the geographer Yves Lacoste in relation to the book Al-Muqaddimah (1377) by the historian Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) considering the vicissitudes of the Algerian Revolution (1954-1962) in terms of the socio-historical context, as well as the interpretations of the historian Charles-André Julien (1891-1991) and the geographer Émile-Félix Gautier (1864-1940) on the Arabisation-Islamisation of the Maghreb. This writing is linked to intellectual history. In the terms of François Dosse (2006 [2003]), it is a project to elucidate the works of thinkers in their historicity. This article is based on: (I) Lacoste’s writings on Kladun’s work, the geographer's memoirs and interviews (LACOSTE, 1956; 1991 [1966]; 2010; 2018; 2022); (II) the observations made by Émile-Félix Gautier (1927) and Charles-André Julien (1986 [1931]); and (III) the analytical and historical contributions made by J. Laginha Serafim (1984), Richard Max de Araújo (2007) and Beatriz Bissio (2012). Initially, one of the main results that the research allowed us to point out is that, due to the Algerian Revolution, Lacoste willassume an anti-colonialist and simultaneously Gaullist stance in the evaluation of the phenomenon. In addition, the importance of interpreting the Lacostean reading of Ibn Khaldun’s work as a concrete position in the face of Gautier and Julien’s evaluations is emphasized.
