Following more rigorous process, King Faisal International Prize went to five scholars with Preacher Dr Zakir Naik at the forefront. Prize for Service to Islam went to Dr. Naik after he replaced Nigerian scholar Ahmed Abou Bakr Lemu while Prize for Islamic Studies was awarded to Dr. Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Kaki.
In the field of Medicine, despite Ebola crisis, King Faisal International Prize went to Jeffrey Ivan Gordon, Director of the Centre of Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University while Michael Gratzel, director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Omar Mwannes Yaghi, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley managed to dually share the international prize for Science.
More interestingly, unlike last year, Saudi Arabia is withholding prize for Arabic Language and Literature which was awarded to Abdullah Ibrahim Allawi Albussabah of Iraq in April 2014.
It is noteworthy to disclose that each year, King Faisal foundation of Saudi Arabia recognizes excellent achievements in services to Islam, Islamic Studies, Medicine, Science and Arabic Language and Literature.
I do expect, at least a Somali scholar will appear in the list in the near future Insha'allah.
Abdirashid Mohamed Dahir is consultant and Undergraduate Civil Engineering Student-Follow him on twitter @somaliajunkie
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