Mohammed Hasan Alwan

Longlist, 2022 National Book Awards

Mohammed Hasan Alwan is a Saudi novelist with a PhD from Carleton University. He is the author of four previous novels, including Al-Qundus (The Beavers), which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013 and won the Arab World Institute’s Prix de la Littérature Arabe.
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Ibn Arabi's Small Death

book cover for Mohammed Hasan Alwan, Ibn Arabi’s Small Death
ISBN 9781477324301 Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Translated from the Arabic. Ibn Arabi's Small Death is a sweeping and inventive work of historical fiction that chronicles the life of the great Sufi master and philosopher Ibn Arabi. Known in the West as "Rumi's teacher," he was a poet and mystic who proclaimed that love was his religion. More about this book >

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Mohammed Hasan Alwan

Mohammed Hasan Alwan is a Saudi novelist with a PhD from Carleton University. He is the author of four previous novels, including Al-Qundus (The Beavers), which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013 and won the Arab World Institute’s Prix de la Littérature Arabe.

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