Modern Intellectual History is delighted to announce that the Institute of Contemporary History and the Padrão dos Descobrimentos/ EGEAC have named Esmat Elhalaby the winner of the inaugural Amílcar Cabral Prize for his article “Empire and Arab Indology.” The article can be accessed here.

The prize jury noted that Elhalby’s Modern Intellectual History article “presented a particularly innovative approach to a little studied topic, the path of Wadi’ Al-Bustani, lawyer, activist, poet, translator, and commentator on canonical works from Indology to Arabic, thus offering an example of a way of practicing an intellectual history that does not ignore South-South perspectives and contacts.”

You can read more about the award here.