Ben Salem Himmich
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Ben Salem Himmich (born in 1947) is a writer, poet and philosopher who teaches at the University of Rabat in Morocco.
He has published 26 books in Arabic and French, both literary and scientific works. As a liberal philosopher, Himmich is concerned with matters including ideological education in Islam. He advocates the division of church and state. His work deals, brilliantly, with the problems and conflicts which Morocco is faced with today.
[edit] Books
- De la formation idéologique en Islam
- Le Calife de l'épouvante (Le serpent à plumes)
- The Polymath, ed.: American University in Cairo
- Au pays de nos crises
[edit] Awards
- Bensalem Himmich won the prize of the critics (1990) for his novel le fou du pouvoir, a book elected by the Arab union of writers as one of the hundred best books of the 20th century.
- He also won the prize Charika of the Arab culture of jury comprised of UNESCO and well known literary personalities. Ben Salem Himmich also won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his book Al-'Allamah (2001; "The Erudite" a book about the great Arab writer Ibn Khaldoun) (The award was established in 1996 and awarded for the best contemporary novel published in Arabic. The winning work is translated into English and published in Cairo, London, and New York.)
