Winners of King Faisal Award Announced
-- Researchers from Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Morocco, Russia, and Egypt have been the winners of the King Faisal Award for the year 2009.
The winners were announced by Prince Khaled Al Faisal, the director of the King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh on Monday night.
From Saudi Arabia, the winner is Abd Al Aziz Nasir Al Manie in the category of Arabic language and literature.
In the Science category, the prize was awarded jointly to Sir Richard Henry Friend of the UK, chairman of the Council of the School of Physical Sciences and Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, and Rashid Alievich Sunyaev of Russia, chief scientist of the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Science and director of the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany.
In the medicine category, the prize was given to Ronald Levy of the US, the head of the Division of Oncology at Stanford University Medical School’s Department of Medicine.
The prize for Islamic studies went to Abdessalam M. Cheddadi, professor at the University Research Institute of Mohammed V University in Rabat.
The prize in the category of service to Islam has been awarded to the Principal Shariah Society for Quran and Sunnah Scholars in Egypt in recognition of its outstanding services to Islam and Muslims, which include nearly 100 years of dawa, using the Quran and the Sunnah in extending real Islamic teachings and calling for unity among Muslims.
Source: Khaleej Times
From Saudi Arabia, the winner is Abd Al Aziz Nasir Al Manie in the category of Arabic language and literature.
In the Science category, the prize was awarded jointly to Sir Richard Henry Friend of the UK, chairman of the Council of the School of Physical Sciences and Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, and Rashid Alievich Sunyaev of Russia, chief scientist of the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Science and director of the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany.
In the medicine category, the prize was given to Ronald Levy of the US, the head of the Division of Oncology at Stanford University Medical School’s Department of Medicine.
The prize for Islamic studies went to Abdessalam M. Cheddadi, professor at the University Research Institute of Mohammed V University in Rabat.
The prize in the category of service to Islam has been awarded to the Principal Shariah Society for Quran and Sunnah Scholars in Egypt in recognition of its outstanding services to Islam and Muslims, which include nearly 100 years of dawa, using the Quran and the Sunnah in extending real Islamic teachings and calling for unity among Muslims.
Source: Khaleej Times
