King Faisal Prize | |
Alt: | King Faisal Prize logo |
Presenter: | King Faisal Foundation |
Country: | Saudi Arabia |
Reward: | A certificate, A 24-carat gold medal, A check of SR 750 thousand (an equivalent of US$ 200 thousand)[1] |
Year: | 1979 |
The King Faisal Prize (ar|جائزة الملك فيصل, formerly King Faisal International Prize), is an annual award sponsored by King Faisal Foundation presented to "dedicated men and women whose contributions make a positive difference".[2] [3] The foundation awards prizes in five categories: Service to Islam; Islamic studies; the Arabic language and Arabic literature; science; and medicine.
The first King Faisal Prize was awarded to the Pakistani scholar Abul A'la Maududi in 1979 for his service to Islam. In 1981, Khalid of Saudi Arabia received the same award.[4] In 1984, Fahd of Saudi Arabia was the recipient of the award.[5] In 1986, this prize was co-awarded to Ahmed Deedat and French Roger Garaudy.[6]
Each year, the selection committees designate subjects in Islamic Studies, Arabic Literature, and Medicine. Selected topics in Islamic Studies category are aimed at highlighting areas of importance in Muslim societies. Arabic Literature topics relate to specialized areas within the discipline. Topics in medicine are supposed to reflect current areas of international concern. The science category covers a broad range of subcategories e.g. physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology.
Islamic institutions, universities and previous winners of the King Faisal Prize can nominate a person for the award. Nominations from ordinary individuals or political parties are not accepted.[7] The nominee or nominated institution(s) must be known for their leading practical or intellectual role in the service of Islam and Muslims.[8] Nominated works must be published, benefit mankind and enrich human knowledge.
Winners of the Prize for category "Service to Islam" are chosen directly by the respective selection committee. For other Prize categories, pre-selection by peer reviewers is carried out, which is followed by scrutiny of the works of worthy nominees by selected referees of each discipline. Autonomous, international, specialist selection committees are then convened at the headquarters of King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh each January to make their final decisions.
The prize in each of the five categories consists of:[9]
Co-winners in any category share the monetary grant. The prizes are awarded during a ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, under the auspices of the King of Saudi Arabia.
The five countries with most award-winners included 2024 were:[10]
height=60px | Position ! | Service to Islam | Islamic Studies | Arabic Language and Literature | Medicine | Science | Total | |
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United States | 0 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 28 | 63 | ||
Egypt | 7 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 39 | ||
Saudi Arabia | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 | ||
United Kingdom | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 28 | ||
Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
Sydney Brenner was considered to be the first Jew to win the King Faisal Award, in 1992.[11] Ronald Levy was reported to be a Jewish recipient in 2009.[11]
Year | Branch | Country | Winner name | Winner title |
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1979 | Service to Islam | Maulana | ||
1980 | Service to Islam | Mufakkir-e-Islam | ||
Doctor | ||||
1981 | Service to Islam | His Majesty | ||
1982 | Service to Islam | |||
1983 | Service to Islam | Hasanein M. Makhlouf | Shaikh | |
Prince | ||||
1984 | Service to Islam | Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques | ||
1985 | Service to Islam | Mr | ||
1986 | Service to Islam | Mr | ||
Doctor | ||||
1987 | Service to Islam | Shaikh | ||
1988 | Service to Islam | Doctor | ||
1989 | Service to Islam | Shaikh | ||
1990 | Service to Islam | Shaikh | ||
Professor | ||||
1991 | Service to Islam | His Excellency | ||
1992 | Service to Islam | His Excellency | ||
1993 | Service to Islam | President | ||
1994 | Service to Islam | Muhammad Ibn Al-Uthaymeen[12] | ||
1995 | Service to Islam | His Eminence | ||
1996 | Service to Islam | Doctor | ||
1997 | Service to Islam | Prime Minister | ||
1998 | Service to Islam | His Excellency | ||
1999 | Service to Islam | Mr | ||
2000 | Service to Islam | - | ||
2001 | Service to Islam | - | ||
2002 | Service to Islam | |||
2003 | Service to Islam | - | ||
2004 | Service to Islam | Field Marshal | ||
2005 | Service to Islam | Ahmed Mohamed Ali | His Excellency | |
AI-Hariri Foundation | - | |||
2006 | Service to Islam | Shaikh Salih bin Abd AlRahman AI-Husayyin | His Excellency | |
Yusuf bin Jasim bin Mohammad AI-Hidji | Shaikh | |||
2007 | Service to Islam | His Excellency | ||
2008 | Service to Islam | Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques | ||
2009 | Service to Islam | Principal Sharie Society for Quran and Sunnah Scholars Cairo | - | |
2010 | Service to Islam | Prime Minister | ||
2011 | Service to Islam | His Excellency | ||
2012 | Service to Islam | Shaikh | ||
2014 | Service to Islam | Sheikh, Justice | ||
2015 | Service to Islam | Doctor | ||
2016 | Service to Islam | Salih bin Abdullah al Humaid[13] | Doctor | |
2017 | Service to Islam | King | ||
2018 | Service to Islam | Irwandi Jaswir | Professor | |
2019 | Service to Islam | International University of Africa, Khartoum | - | |
2020 | Service to Islam | The Makkah Document | - | |
2021 | Service to Islam | Mohammed Al-Sharekh | Mr | |
2022 | Service to Islam | His Excellency | ||
Hassan Mahmoud Al Shafei | Professor | |||
2023 | Service to Islam | Choi Young Kil-Hamed | Professor | |
Nasser bin Abdullah Al Zaabi | His Excellency | |||
2024 | Service to Islam | Japan Muslim Association | - | |
Mohammad Sammak | Doctor |
Year | Branch | Topic | Country | Winner name | Winner title | |
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1979 | Islamic studies | Professor | ||||
1980 | Islamic studies | Studies on the hadith of Muhammad | Doctor | |||
1981 | Islamic studies | Studies on the role of Shari'a in the restoration of the society | - | Not awarded | ----- | |
1982 | Islamic studies | Contemporary economic problems from an Islamic perspective | Professor | |||
1983 | Islamic studies | Studies on the Quran | ![]() | Muhammad A. Odaimah | Professor | |
1984 | Islamic studies | Mustafa A. AI-Zarka'a | Shaikh | |||
1985 | Islamic studies | Studies and editions on the Islamic doctrine | Professor | |||
Farouk A Oesouki | Doctor | |||||
Mustafa M. Suliman | Doctor | |||||
1986 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic history | Abd AI-Aziz AI-Duri | Professor | ||
1987 | Islamic studies | Principles and practices of international relations in Islam | - | Not awarded | - | |
1988 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic education | Muhammad Kotb Shathly | - | ||
Mikdat Yalçın | Professor | |||||
1989 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with the Islamic city | Saleh Ahmad AI-Ali | Professor | ||
1990 | Islamic studies | Al-Seddiq M. Al-Darir | Professor | |||
Doctor | ||||||
1991 | Islamic studies | - | Not awarded | - | ||
1992 | Islamic studies | Origins of research methodologies in contemporary | - | Not awarded | - | |
1993 | Islamic studies | Hasan As-Sa'ati Abd AI Aziz | Professor | |||
1994 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic law | EI-Sayyid Sabiq At-Tihami | Shaikh | ||
Doctor | ||||||
1995 | Islamic studies | - | Not awarded | - | ||
1996 | Islamic studies | Akram Dia'a AI-Umari | Professor | |||
1997 | Islamic studies | Abd AI-Karim Zedan Biej | Professor | |||
1998 | Islamic studies | Studies on libraries or the evolution of Islamic book craft | Abd AI-Sattar Al-Halwaji | Professor | ||
Yahia M. bin Junaid | Professor | |||||
1999 | Islamic studies | Shaikh | ||||
2000 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with the spread and cultural impact of Islam outside the Arab | Professor | |||
2001 | Islamic studies | Studies on matters with no Islamic legal precedent | - | Not awarded | - | |
2002 | Islamic studies | Studies into the objectives of Islamic legislation | - | Not awarded | - | |
2003 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with history of Islamic economics | Izz EI-Din Omar Mousa | Professor | ||
Ibrahim Abu Bakr Harakat | Professor | |||||
2004 | Islamic studies | Basics of Islamic jurisprudence | Yacoub Abd AI-wahab AIBahussain | Doctor | ||
Ali Ahmad Ghulam Muhammad Nadvi | Doctor | |||||
2005 | Islamic studies | Defense of the Islamic state during the 5th and 6th centuries A.H | Professor | |||
2006 | Islamic studies | - | Not awarded | |||
2007 | Islamic studies | Muslims' contribution to pure or applied sciences | Roshdi Hifni Rashed | Professor | ||
2008 | Islamic studies | Rules governing international relations during peace and war in Islam | - | Withheld | - | |
2009 | Islamic studies | Studies by Muslim scholars on the concept of "imran" (civilization cycles) | Abdessalam M. Cheddadi | Professor | ||
2010 | Islamic studies | - | Withheld | - | ||
2011 | Islamic studies | Socioeconomic aspects in the Islamic world through 10th–13th century H; | Halil İbrahim İnalcık | Professor | ||
Muhammad Adnan Bakhit Al-Sheyyab | Professor | |||||
2012 | Islamic studies | Professor Adnaan Bin Muhammad Al-Wazan | His Excellency | |||
2015 | Islamic studies | Cultural heritage of Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah | Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Kaki | Doctor | ||
2016 | Islamic studies | Muslim geography heritage | Abdullah bin Yousif Al-Ghunaim | Professor | ||
2018 | Islamic studies | Critical editions of Islamic historical and biographical texts | Bashar Awad | Professor | ||
2020 | Islamic studies | Islamic heritage of Alquds | Mohammed Hashim Ghosheh | Doctor | ||
2021 | Islamic studies | Endowment in Islam | - | Withheld | - | |
2022 | Islamic studies | Andalus's Islamic heritage | - | Withheld | - | |
2023 | Islamic studies | Islamic architecture | Robert Hillenbrand | Professor | ||
2024 | Islamic studies | Islamic Legislations and their Contemporary Applications | Wael Hallaq | Professor |
Year | Branch | Topic | Country | Winner name | Winner title | |
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1979 | - | Not awarded | - | |||
1980 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry | Professor | |||
Abd Al-Qadir Al-Qit | Professor | |||||
1981 | Arabic language and literature | Editing literary manuscripts from the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.H. | Abd Al Salam Harun | Professor | ||
1982 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic literature from the pre-Islamic era to the end of the 1st century A.H. | Nasir Al-Din Al-Asad | Professor | ||
1983 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic literature during the 2nd and 3rd centuries | Professor | |||
1984 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on Arabic literature during the 4th century A.H. | - | |||
1985 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic literary criticism | - | Not awarded | - | |
1986 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on Arabic literature during the 5th and 6th centuries A.H. | - | |||
1987 | Arabic language and literature | Literary studies on modern Arabic prose | - | Not awarded | - | |
1988 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on Arabic literature in Andalusia | Mohammad Bin Sharifah | Professor | ||
Mahmoud Y. Makki | Professor | |||||
1989 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with prominent Arab writers and poets to the end of the 3rd century A.H. | Yousef A. Khulaif | Professor | ||
Shaker Al-Fahham | Professor | |||||
1990 | Arabic language and literature | Short Novels | Yahia M. Haqqi | Mr | ||
1991 | Arabic language and literature | Children's Literature | MAli Abd Al-Qadir Al Siqilli | Mr | ||
Abd Al Tawwab Yousef | Mr | |||||
Ahmed M. Najeeb | - | |||||
1992 | Arabic language and literature | Translations of literary and critical studies into Arabic | Mohammad Yousef Najm | Professor | ||
Abd Alfattah Shukri Ayyad | Professor | |||||
Mohammad Mustafa Badawi | Professor | |||||
1993 | Arabic language and literature | Plays written in metrical or prose Arabic | - | Not awarded | - | |
1994 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with ancient Arabic prose | Wadad Afif Kadi | Professor | ||
Aisha Abd Al Rahman "Bint ash shati" | Professor | |||||
1995 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with prominent contemporary Arab writers | Mohammad Abu Al-Anwar Mohammad Ali | Professor | ||
Hamdi Sayyid Ahmed El Sakkout | Professor | |||||
Salma Lutfi Al-Haffar Al-Kowzbari | - | |||||
1996 | Arabic language and literature | Literature analyzing the writings of early Arab travelers | Shaikh | |||
1997 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on the modern Arabic novel | - | Not awarded | - | |
1998 | Arabic language and literature | Autobiographies by contemporary Arab writers | - | Not awarded | - | |
1999 | Arabic language and literature | Comparative studies between Arabic and other literatures: theoretical and applied aspects | Said Abd Al-Salam Allouche | - | ||
Makarim Ahmed Al-Ghamri | Professor | |||||
2000 | Arabic language and literature | Studies pertaining to early Arab literary critics | Professor | |||
Abd Allah Al-Tayyeb | - | |||||
2001 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with modern Arabic prose | Mansour Ibrahim Al Hazmi | Professor | ||
Ibrahim Abd Al-Rahim Al Saafin | Professor | |||||
2002 | Arabic language and literature | Studies of modern Palestinian literature | Husni Mahmoud Hussein | Professor | ||
Husam Aldin Al-Khatib | Professor | |||||
2003 | Arabic language and literature | Definitions of literary and critical terms of Arabic literature | - | Not awarded | - | |
2004 | Preservation of classical Arabic to the end of the 5th century AH | Hussain M Nassar | Professor | |||
2005 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic prose in the 4th and 5th centuries A.H. | - | Not awarded | - | |
2006 | Arabic language and literature | The Arabic language in modern linguistics | - | |||
Tammam Hassan Omar | Professor | |||||
2007 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic rhetoric | Mustafa A. Nasif | Professor | ||
Muhammad A. Al-Omari | Professor | |||||
2008 | Arabic language and literature | Terminology Issues of the Arabic language | Muhammad Rachad Hamzaoui | Professor | ||
Ahmed Matloob Al-Nasir | Professor | |||||
2009 | Arabic language and literature | Verification of poetry, prose and anthology through 300 H – 700 H | Abd Al-Aziz Bin Nasir Al-Manie | Professor | ||
2010 | Arabic language and literature | Studies Dealing with Arabic Grammatical Thought | Professor | |||
Professor | ||||||
2011 | Arabic language and literature | Renovation trends in Arabic poetry up to the end of the 7th century H. | - | Not awarded | - | |
2012 | Arabic language and literature | Computer processing of the Arabic language: individual and institutional endeavors | Nabil Ali Mohamed | Professor | ||
Ali Helmy Ahmed Moussa | Professor | |||||
2013 | Arabic language and literature | Individual and institutional efforts In writing Arabic dictionaries | Arabic language Academy In Cairo | - | ||
2015 | Arabic language and literature | Venture towards Arabisation of scientific and medical matters | - | Withheld | - | |
2016 | Arabic language and literature | Analysis of the Arabic poetic text | Mohamed Abdalmotaleb Mostafa | Professor | ||
Mohammed El-Ghazouani Miftah | Professor | |||||
2018 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with autobiography in Arabic literature | Professor | |||
2019 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic language and contemporary challenges | Abdelali Mohamed Oudrhiri | Doctor | ||
Mahmoud Fahmy Hegazi | Doctor | |||||
2020 | Arabic language and literature | Linguistic studies on Arabic in other languages | Professor | |||
2021 | Arabic language and literature | The new rhetoric | Mohamed Mechbal | Professor | ||
2022 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic literature studies in English | Professor | |||
Muhsin Al-Musawi | Professor | |||||
2023 | Arabic language and literature | Classical Arabic narrative and modern theories | Abdelfattah Kilito | Professor | ||
2024 | Arabic language and literature | Non-Arab Institutions and their Endeavors to Promote Arabic | - | Withheld | - |
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1991 | Medicine | - | Not awarded | - | ||||||
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1993 | Medicine | Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi | Professor | ||||||
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1994 | Medicine | Robert Williamson (de) | Professor | |||||||
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2012 | Medicine | Minimal invasive fetal management | Professor | |||||||
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2014 | Medicine | Non-invasive diagnosis of fetal diseases | Professor | |||||||
2015 | Medicine | Intestinal microflora and human health | Professor | |||||||
2016 | Medicine | Clinical application of next generation genetics | Professor | |||||||
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2017 | Medicine | Biologic therapeutics in autoimmune diseases | Professor | |||||||
2018 | Medicine | Immunotherapy for cancer | James P. Allison | Professor | ||||||
2019 | Medicine | Bone biology and osteoporosis | Steven L. Teitelbaum | Professor | ||||||
Bjorn Reino Olsen | Professor | |||||||||
2020 | Medicine | Haemoglobinopathies | Professor | |||||||
2021 | Medicine | Regenerative medicine in neurological conditions | Stephen Mark Strittmatter | Professor | ||||||
Robin James Milroy Franklin | Professor | |||||||||
2022 | Medicine | Gene editing technologies | Professor | |||||||
2023 | Medicine | Pandemics and vaccine development | Dan Barouch | Professor | ||||||
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2024 | Medicine | Management of Peripheral Disabilities | Professor |
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1984 | Heinrich Rohrer | Professor | ||||||||
Gerd Binnig | Professor | |||||||||
1985 | Science | - | - | Not awarded | - | |||||
1986 | Science | Sir | ||||||||
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1989 | Science | Physics | Theodor W. Hänsch | Professor | ||||||
/ | Ahmed Hassan Zewail | Professor | ||||||||
1990 | Science | Professor | ||||||||
/ | Mostafa El-Sayed | Professor | ||||||||
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1991 | Science | Mathematics | - | Not awarded | - | |||||
1992 | Science | Biology | Sydney Brenner | Professor | ||||||
1993 | Science | Physics | Steven Chu | Professor | ||||||
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1994 | Science | Mathematics | Professor | |||||||
1995 | Science | Chemistry | K. Barry Sharpless | Professor | ||||||
1996 | Science | Günter Blobel | Professor | |||||||
James E. Rothman | Professor | |||||||||
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1997 | Science | Physics | Eric Allin Cornell | Professor | ||||||
Carl E. Wieman | Professor | |||||||||
1998 | Science | Mathematics | Sir | |||||||
1999 | Chemistry | Professor | ||||||||
Ryoji Noyori | Professor | |||||||||
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2001 | Science | Physics | Chen Ning Yang | Professor | ||||||
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Anton Zeilinger | Professor | |||||||||
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2007 | Science | Chemistry | James Fraser Stoddart | Professor | ||||||
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2024 | Science | Biology | Professor[16] |