Foucault again:
This week was about the Foucaldian notions of understanding history..
Foucault has applied the Genealogy and Archaeology methods in reading history which asserts that history is a combination of different liars and roots .it is not lineal. According to this, different notions in different times have a certain power and meanings. Defining the notion in terms of its position in the history map could give a better understanding.
By looking to the Arab world I could argue that the history is still reading in one way. We could see that by analysing the educational, political, and cultural system. This “one way” emphasizes the power and hierarchy system and discourse in the history narration.
However, who said that Foucault theory is the best and the only way to read different history in different nations? Especially we know that he wrote his theory to apply it in the nineteenth century of the European history.
Reflection:
When the nation began to expand in the early Islamic epoch upon the Romanian and Greek territory none of this civilisation had been ignored.
The Islamic thought has the ability and the flexibility to understand the ancient thoughts and use them to come up with a unique and distinctive culture which commensurate with the Islamic values.
This idea makes me think: we might need a unique theory which could be compatible with the different aspect in our culture in order to read and understand our history in an effective way rather than applying the western theories.
