Edition 10 (2016)
Winners
7 peopleA sweeping study that analyzes the history, ideology, and social impact of political religious groups from multiple angles. It reframes the conflict between religion and politics as an intellectual struggle rather than a military one.
A major study that rereads political religious movements as intellectual history.
An Arabic translation of a classic work on the relation between language, thought, and signs. It is positioned as a foundational book for thinking about how meaning is produced through abstract theory.
A classic of semantics reread in Arabic.
A literary autobiography that traces the author’s career alongside political, social, and cultural change. It speaks openly about the origins of his work and the making of his fiction, while evoking the literary density of Alexandria.
A literary autobiography that speaks frankly about the making of fiction.
A theoretical work that revisits the basic framework of Arab literary criticism. It organizes questions of literature and criticism within an Arab intellectual context and lays out a scholarly foundation for debate.
A theoretical book about the foundations of Arab literary criticism.
A scholarly study that traces the history of the concept of angle and its measurement from Euclid to Arabic science. It reads Greek and Arabic texts closely and reconnects the histories of mathematics and philosophy.
A study of the concept of angle across the histories of mathematics and philosophy.