Bensalem Himmich

Bensalem Himmich (Arabic:بنسالم حميش) (born in 1948 in Meknes) is a novelist, poet and philosopher who teaches at the Mohammed V University, Rabat in Morocco. [1]

Moroccan literature
Moroccan writers
  • Novelists
  • Playwrights
  • Poets
  • Essayists
  • Historians
  • Travel writers
  • Sufi writers
  • Moorish writers
Forms
  • Novel
  • Poetry
Criticism and awards
See also
  • Morocco Portal
  • Literature Portal

He has published 26 books, both literary and scientific works, in Arabic and French. 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 with the problems and conflicts with which Morocco is faced today.

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

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 won the prize Charika of the Arab culture of jury composed of UNESCO and well known literary personalities.
  • Ben Salem Himmich won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his book Al-'Allamah (2001; The Polymath, 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.) [2]
gollark: I mean, postgres has very good caching, so it gets fairly fast if I search for bees multiple times, but whyyyy?
gollark: Yes.
gollark: ```sqlnonlocality=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT url, ts_rank(fts, query) AS rank, ts_headline(fts::text, query, 'MaxWords=60') FROM pages, websearch_to_tsquery('bee') query WHERE fts @@ query ORDER BY rank LIMIT 1; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Limit (cost=860.79..861.06 rows=1 width=96) (actual time=35935.590..35935.594 rows=1 loops=1) -> Result (cost=860.79..874.83 rows=52 width=96) (actual time=35935.587..35935.589 rows=1 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=860.79..860.92 rows=52 width=178) (actual time=35934.109..35934.111 rows=1 loops=1) Sort Key: (ts_rank(pages.fts, query.query)) Sort Method: top-N heapsort Memory: 25kB -> Nested Loop (cost=0.25..860.53 rows=52 width=178) (actual time=444.148..35932.932 rows=349 loops=1) Join Filter: (pages.fts @@ query.query) Rows Removed by Join Filter: 10272 -> Function Scan on websearch_to_tsquery query (cost=0.25..0.26 rows=1 width=32) (actual time=0.038..0.041 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on pages (cost=0.00..728.95 rows=10495 width=142) (actual time=10.189..289.581 rows=10621 loops=1) Planning Time: 0.184 ms Execution Time: 35935.637 ms(12 rows)```
gollark: What? Why does it say it's doing a sequential scan now? Æ all is bee.
gollark: Slower, even.

References
  1. Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, ed. Taylor & Francis, 2003 ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3, p. 310
  2. Al-Ahram 19 - 25 December 2002, Issue No. 617, "Ibn Khaldun resurrected, Amina Elbendary attends the Mahfouz Award Ceremony at AUC" "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-15. Retrieved 2009-02-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (retrieved Feb. 15, 2009)
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