Islamic Personality of the Year (Dubai International Holy Quran Award)

The Islamic Personality of the Year is a branch of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award, through which the award each year honours a person or institution for a distinguished contribution in the religious, intellectual and scientific fields, with the stated aim of showing Islam's civilisational face and its contribution to human progress. ¹

The first recipient was Muhammad Mutawalli al-Sha'rawi at the first session in 1418 AH, followed by Abu al-Hasan Ali Nadwi (1419), Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1420), Alija Izetbegović (1422), Abd Allah bin Abd al-Muhsin al-Turki (1423), al-Azhar Mosque (1424), Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti (1425), Abd al-Rahman al-Sudais (1426), Zaghloul El-Naggar (1427), Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni (1428), the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an (1429), Murad Hofmann (1430), Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (1431), Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (1432), Yusuf Estes (1433), Zakir Naik and Ahmed el-Tayeb (1434), Fatima bint Mubarak (1435), Muhammad Ali Sultan al-Ulama (1436), King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz (1438), Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Hudhayfi (1439), Juma Al Majid (1440), the Al Maktoum Charity Foundation (1441), Ibrahim al-Akhdar (1442), Ahmad Umar Hashim (1443) and Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum (1444). ¹ Those with a record in the museum appear in the list of honoured records on this page.

• Arabic Wikipedia, «جائزة دبي الدولية للقرآن الكريم», revision 76532484. ¹