Dubai Int’l Quran Award Winners Named
The ruler of Dubai and a number of other senior officials honored the top winners in a ceremony earlier this week, Bawaba al-Ain reported.
In a speech at the ceremony, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said honoring the people of the Quran is in fact honoring knowledge and virtue and that serving the Book of God is something to be proud of.
According to the report, Abdullah Faisal al-Buti from Kuwait came first in the men’s section of the competition.
Karrar Laith Saad from Iraq was the runner-up and the third-rank winner was Omar Ali Aiwaz from Egypt.
In the women’s section, Ayisha al-Romi from Indonesia, Jana Ayhab Muhammad Ramdan from Egypt and Sara Abdul Karim al-Halaq from Syria came first to third, respectively.
The top contenders in the men and women sections received a cash prize of $1 million each.
A total of 5,618 applicants from 105 countries had taken part in the preliminary round of the competition.
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Bangladesh had the highest number of participants (81), followed by Pakistan (48), Indonesia (45), Egypt (35), India (27), Libya (24), the United States (20), and Mauritania and Yemen (13 each).
The Dubai International Holy Quran Award was launched in 1997 and has since become one of the most widely recognized Quran recitation competitions globally.
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