Edition 11 (2017)
Winners
8 peopleWritten as children’s literature, the book gently explores acceptance, coexistence, and the value of difference. Its imaginative shape encourages an open view of the world around us.
A gentle story about the importance of acceptance.
An intellectual work that reconsiders basic ideas of faith, social consciousness, and religious belonging in order to reframe modern understandings of Islam. Its reformist outlook encourages ethical reflection rather than polemic.
It reframes religion and society as a question of thought, not just institutions.
A French translation of an Arabic study on Ibn Rushd that organizes the core of Arab thought around the relationship between law and philosophy. Through translation and annotation, it extends the ground for comparative intellectual history.
Translation makes the link between law and philosophy in Arab thought more visible.
A novel by a Lebanese poet-writer set in an Arab village, tracing a father-son relationship shaped by violence and authoritarian pressure. Its lyrical voice turns social critique into a layered fable.
Father-son rupture and violence unfold as a village fable.
A critical study that examines the possibilities of literary fiction through references to myth and philosophical debate. It probes how imagination works in literature from both theoretical and practical angles.
It reconsiders the power of fiction from both theory and example.
A research book that traces the movement from thinking about nature to the nature of thought through the intersection of philosophy after Kant and biology. By linking conceptual history with the history of science, it reconsiders the frame of modern thought.
It rethinks the shape of thought at the point where philosophy meets biology.