The winners of the King Faisal Award for the year 2009 were announced. The award was given to five recipients from Saudi Arabia, the UK, the United States, Morocco and Russia. Egypt’s Principal Shari’ah Society for Qur’an and Sunnah Scholars was also honoured. The winners were announced by Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, the director of the King Faisal Foundation. 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 category of Arabic Language and Literature, the prize went to Abd Al-Aziz Nasir Al-Manie of Saudi Arabia. The prize for Islamic Studies went to Abdessalam M. Cheddadi of Morocco. The prize in the category of Service to Islam has been awarded to the Principal Shari’ah Society for Qur’an and Sunnah Scholars in Egypt.
KING FAISAL AWARDS
The winners of the King Faisal Award for the year 2009 were announced. The award was given to five recipients from Saudi Arabia, the UK, the United States, Morocco and Russia. Egypt’s Principal Shari’ah Society for Qur’an and Sunnah Scholars was also honoured.
