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EX-PM ABDULLAH WINS KING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 (Bernama) -- Former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) for Service to Islam.
A panel of judges chaired by Crown Prince Sultan, Saudi Arabia's deputy premier
and minister of defence and aviation, picked Abdullah as one of the seven
winners in four different categories.
The King Faisal Foundation, which organised the award, said on its website that
KFIP winners for 2011 were announced at a press conference Monday night by Mecca
Governor Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, who is also the director of the foundation.
Abdullah, 71, became Malaysia's fifth prime minister on Oct 31, 2003 before
handing over power to Najib Razak on April 3, 2009.
According to the citation, Abdullah was selected for the prize in
recognition of his outstanding services to Islam and Muslims, both within Malaysia
and abroad.
His accomplishments included strengthening bilateral and multilateral
cooperation through his active leadership of South Asian countries, as well as
playing a "major role in reinforcing Malaysia's economic development and
encouraging Islamic studies".
The former premier, the citation said, had supported Islamic legal
administration and strengthened endowment and Haj institutions in Malaysia.
Abdullah was also the force behind establishing the International Institute of
Advanced Islamic Studies in 2008, which is a non-political institution dedicated
to widening and disseminating Islamic thought.
In the Islamic studies category, Khalil Ibrahim Inalcik of Turkey and Muhammad
Adnan Bakhit Al-Sheyyab of Jordan, were declared co-winners.
James A. Thomson of the United States and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan were named
co-winners in the medicine category, while in the science category, George
Whitesides and Richard Zare, both from the US, shared the prize.
Each of the four prize categories given this year consists of a certificate
summarising the laureate’s work, a commemorative 24-carat gold medal and a cash
endowment of SR750,000.
The King Faisal Foundation was established in 1976 by the eight sons of the late
King Faisal, the kingdom's third monarch. A total of 209 scholars, leaders and
scientists from 40 countries have been conferred the KFIP in different
categories so far.
-- BERNAMA
A panel of judges chaired by Crown Prince Sultan, Saudi Arabia's deputy premier
and minister of defence and aviation, picked Abdullah as one of the seven
winners in four different categories.
The King Faisal Foundation, which organised the award, said on its website that
KFIP winners for 2011 were announced at a press conference Monday night by Mecca
Governor Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, who is also the director of the foundation.
Abdullah, 71, became Malaysia's fifth prime minister on Oct 31, 2003 before
handing over power to Najib Razak on April 3, 2009.
According to the citation, Abdullah was selected for the prize in
recognition of his outstanding services to Islam and Muslims, both within Malaysia
and abroad.
His accomplishments included strengthening bilateral and multilateral
cooperation through his active leadership of South Asian countries, as well as
playing a "major role in reinforcing Malaysia's economic development and
encouraging Islamic studies".
The former premier, the citation said, had supported Islamic legal
administration and strengthened endowment and Haj institutions in Malaysia.
Abdullah was also the force behind establishing the International Institute of
Advanced Islamic Studies in 2008, which is a non-political institution dedicated
to widening and disseminating Islamic thought.
In the Islamic studies category, Khalil Ibrahim Inalcik of Turkey and Muhammad
Adnan Bakhit Al-Sheyyab of Jordan, were declared co-winners.
James A. Thomson of the United States and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan were named
co-winners in the medicine category, while in the science category, George
Whitesides and Richard Zare, both from the US, shared the prize.
Each of the four prize categories given this year consists of a certificate
summarising the laureate’s work, a commemorative 24-carat gold medal and a cash
endowment of SR750,000.
The King Faisal Foundation was established in 1976 by the eight sons of the late
King Faisal, the kingdom's third monarch. A total of 209 scholars, leaders and
scientists from 40 countries have been conferred the KFIP in different
categories so far.
-- BERNAMA
