RIYADH: Renowned preacher Dr. Zakir A. Naik, who is president of the Islamic Research Foundation of India, won the 2015 King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) for Service to Islam .
According to Arab News, Makkah Governor Prince Khaled Al-Faisal and KFIP Secretary-General Abdullah Al-Othaimeen announced the names of the winners at a function held at Al-Khozama Center.
The newspaper further said that two internationally acclaimed scholars of chemistry, Professor Omar Mwannes Yaghi from the United States and Professor Michael Gratzel from Switzerland, were declared co-winners of the prize in science category (chemistry).
The award for Islamic studies went to Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Kaki, a consultant at Madinah Development Authority.
According to the citation read out by Al-Othaimeen, Naik has become a renowned authority on comparative religion. “He has founded a TV channel called Peace TV, which remains the only channel in the world specialized in comparative religion with huge audience profile,” said the citation.
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