Gramsci and the encounter with the Arab world

Abstract

The article is the result of research, from a Gramscian perspective, into the history of Islamic countries and the activities of the Gramsci International Studies Laboratory at the University of Cagliari (Gramsci Lab), which reconstruct the stages and developments of a process which, over the years, has made it possible for the thought of the author of Prison Notebooks to penetrate the Arab world. Realities in which the theme of philosophical translatability assumes an undoubted political interest, due to the incidence of contradictions, conflicts and revolutionary processes triggered by the dialectic between the colonial legacy and the present of these countries and the struggles of the peoples of this part of the world, for emancipation from the paradigms of Western civilization, imposed by force over the centuries.