Ibn Ruschd Prize
The Ibn Ruschd Prize for Free Thought ( Arabic جائزة ابن رشد للفكر الحرّ, DMG Ǧāʾizat Ibn Rušd lil-fikr al-ḥurr ; English : Ibn Rushd Price for Freedom of Thought ) is awarded for services to democracy and freedom of expression in the Islamic world.
history
The award, which has been advertised since 1999, is endowed with 2,500 euros and is sponsored by the independent Ibn Ruschd Association (مؤسسة ابن رشد للفكر الحرّ, DMG Muʾassasat Ibn Rušd lil-fikr al-ḥurr ; Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought ) by Arab citizens mainly living in Germany. The association was founded in 1998, on the 800th anniversary of the death of the philosopher , doctor and judge Ibn Ruschd (1126–1198) - known under the name Averroes in the European Middle Ages . Ibn Ruschd, one of the most famous commentators on Aristotle and critic of the former theologian and later mystic ( Sufi ) al-Ghazali (1058–1111), was chosen as the namesake because he stands for bridging the gap between Islam and the Enlightenment. The association would like to build on this theological and philosophical heyday in the Arab world.
Award winners
- 1999 al-Jazeera , television station
- 2000 Issam Abdulhadi , Palestinian women's rights activist
- 2001 Mahmud Amin al-Alim , Egyptian publicist
- 2002 Asmi Bischara , Arab member of the Israeli Knesset
- 2003 Mohammed Arkoun , Algerian-French philosopher and Islamic scholar
- 2004 Sonallah Ibrahim , writer
- 2005 Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid , Islamic scholar and hermeneuticist
- 2006 Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim , Sudanese women's rights activist
- 2007 Nouri Bouzid , Tunisian filmmaker
- 2008 Mohammed Abed Al Jabri , Moroccan philosopher and literary scholar
- 2009 Samir Amin , Egyptian economist and critic of neocolonialism
- 2010 al-Hewar al-Mutamaddin , Arabic Internet forum
- 2011 Sihem Bensedrine , Tunisian journalist
- 2012 Razan Zaitouneh , Syrian lawyer and human rights activist
- 2013 Rim Banna , Palestinian singer
- 2014 Rached al-Ghannouchi , Tunisian politician
- 2015 Aisha Odeh (Palestine), Mustafa Khalifa (Syria), Ahmed Marzouki (Morocco) - all: prison literature
- 2016 (not awarded)
- 2017 the Palestinian organization AMAN - Coalition for Accountability and Integrity. Accountability and Integrity Coalition, also the Palestinian Division of Transparency International
- 2018 (not awarded)
- 2019 Sara Qaed , cartoonist from Bahrain
literature
- Otto Kallscheuer : Against the belief in letters. The Egyptian Islamic scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid receives the Ibn Ruschd Prize in Berlin. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, November 27, 2005, No. 47, p. 11.
Web links
- Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought
- The 2005 award winner Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid in an interview with Deutschlandradio , November 25, 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release from ibn-rushd.org on the awarding of the 2006 prize to Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
- ↑ Press release by Ibn Rush Funde on the awarding of the 2011 prize to Sihem Bensedrine
- ↑ The 2017 Ibn Rushd Prize goes to AMAN - Coalition for Accountability and Integrity
- ↑ Ibn Rushd Prize 2019 goes to Bahraini Artist Sara Qaed