موت صغير

International Prize · 2017 · Winner

Dar al-SaqiJanuary 1, 2016Literary Fiction Historical Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
International Prize for Arabic Fiction	2017	Winner

About This Book

A fictionalized biography of the historical Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi (1165–1240), following him across the Islamic world from Andalusia to Mecca to Anatolia in a spiritual and geographical journey of extraordinary historical imagination.

About the Author

Mohammed Hasan AlwanSA

Mohammed Hasan Alwan is a Saudi Arabian novelist born in 1979 in Riyadh. He is one of the most important voices in contemporary Saudi and Gulf Arabic literature, known for fiction that engages with history, identity, and the experience of being Arab in the modern world. He has studied and worked in the United States and Canada and brings a cosmopolitan perspective to his fiction. Read more →