Month: December 2014

Welcome speech of the Ibn Rushd Fund (held by Dr. Hamid Fadlalla) on occasion of awarding the Ibn Rushd Prize 2014 to Rachid al-Ghannouchi Simultanübersetzung: Dr. Günther Orth Verehrte Damen und Herren,ich freue mich, Sie sowie alle anwesenden Vertreter der Botschaften der arabischen Staaten, der Arabischen Liga, des Auswärtigen Amtes und alle anwesenden Vertreter deutscher […]

Members of the Jury of Ibn Rushd Prize 2014 The Ibn Rushd Fund’s voting procedure for the determination of the award winner: After a period of public nomination (any person may nominate one other individual) all valid nominations, including information about the candidates, are forwarded by the Fund to an independent panel for review. The […]

Rashid al-Ghannushi Rashid al-Ghannushi (born in 1941), is a Tunisian politician, co-founder of the Al-Nahda Movement and serving as its “intellectual leader”.Al-Ghannushi was born outside El Hamma, in the governorate of Gabès in southern Tunisia. He received his certificate of attainment degree, equivalent to the Baccalauréat, in 1962 from the University of Ez-Zitouna. He entered […]

Call for Nomination The Ibn Rushd Prize 2014 is calling fora person who stands for a modern Islam as a pillar of civil society and in so doing calls for a democratic civil state The Arab Spring has brought about greatly differing political, legal, and social changes. Some of these convey the feeling of progress […]