winner Human & Future Studies
Fifth Circle 1996-1997

• Born in Bahrain, 1939
• BA in Arabic Literature from AUB, 1963
• Diploma in Education from AUB, 1963
• MA in Andalusian Literature from AUB, 1966
• PhD on Modern Arabic and Islamic Thought from AUB, 1979
• Certificate in French Culture and Language from Sorbonne 1982
• Chairman of Bahrain’s Information Dept. 1969-1971
• Co-founded and chaired Bahrain’s Writers Association 1969
• Member of the Founding Council of the Arab World Institution in Paris 1981
• Lectured at Bahrain’s Higher Institution of Education and AUB
• Cultural and Scientific Advisor at H. H. Bahrain Crown Prince Court
• Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Islamic Culture and Modern Thought at Gulf University in Bahrain
• Member of Bahrain’s National Council of Culture, Arts and Literature 

Awards

• Kuwaiti Scientific Advancement Establishment Award 1981
• Bahrain State of Merit Award 1989
• AGCC Leaders’ Honour, Masqat Summit 1989

Decision of the General Secretariat

Dr. Al Anssari’s works reflect critical vision of prevailing Arab ideology, with an eye on the awaited renaissance stage. His works also focus on diagnosing the Arab situation, politically, socially and culturally.

Famous Works

• The Complete Works of Sheikh Ebrahim Mohammad Al Khalifa
• Visions from the Gulf
• The Gulf: Iran and the Arabs
• Were They Giants and Other Essays
• Trends of Thought in The Eastern Arab World
• Arab and the World in 2000
• Cultural Interaction between Eastern and Western Arab World
• Renaissance Renewal
• Political Structure of the Arabs and the Meaning of Regional State
• Arabs’ Political Crises and the Position of Islam
• Arabic Thought and the Struggle among Opposites
• Reconciliation of Tradition and Modernity
• Distinguished Aspects of Education in Japan
• A New Reading Of Tareekh Al Jabarti
• Spanish Expeditions against Eastern Andalusia
• Islam and the Tribal Life
• The Absence of Institutional Concept of State In the Arab Terminology
• Comparative Study of Urbanism in Islam