King Faisal Prize

{{Infobox award

|name = King Faisal Prize

|awarded_for = {{bulleted list|Service to Islam|Islamic studies|Arabic Language and Literature|Medicine|Science}}

|alt = King Faisal Prize logo

|reward = A certificate, A 24-carat gold medal, A check of SR 750 thousand (an equivalent of US$ 200 thousand){{Cite web|title=About King Faisal Prize|url=https://kingfaisalprize.org/about-kfip/|access-date=2021-09-24|language=en-US}}

|year= 1979

|website= {{URL|kingfaisalprize.org}}

|image=King Faisal Prize Logo.svg}}

The King Faisal Prize ({{langx|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".{{cite web|title=Homepage KFP|url=http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPIndex.html|access-date=2013-08-11|archive-date=2015-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423052647/http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPIndex.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Selection Procedure|url=http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPSelectionProc.html|access-date=2013-08-12|archive-date=2015-05-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503193958/http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPSelectionProc.html|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|title=King Khalid |url=http://www.kka.org.sa/Ar/Pages/KingKhaled.aspx |publisher=King Khalid Award |access-date=8 August 2012 |language=ar |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124152140/http://www.kka.org.sa/Ar/Pages/KingKhaled.aspx |archive-date=24 January 2012 }} In 1984, Fahd of Saudi Arabia was the recipient of the award.{{cite book|title=Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. 8, 1983-84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t32OO3DkDikC&pg=PA166|publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center|isbn=978-965-224-006-4|page=166}} In 1986, this prize was co-awarded to Ahmed Deedat and French Roger Garaudy.{{cite web |url=http://kfip.org/service-to-islam/ |title=Service to Islam | King Faisal International Prize |access-date=2015-01-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106191329/http://kfip.org/service-to-islam/ |archive-date=2015-01-06 }}

[https://www.scribd.com/doc/39671095/Islam-Winners-King-Faisal-Award The King Faisal International Prize - Winners in Twenty Five Years (1979-2003)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212419/http://www.scribd.com/doc/39671095/Islam-Winners-King-Faisal-Award |date=2013-10-29 }}, Page 25.

Award process

=Designation of subjects=

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.

=Nomination =

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.{{cite web|title=Nomination: Service To Islam|url=http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPTopics1STI1435H2014G.html|access-date=2013-08-12|archive-date=2013-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801102129/http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPTopics1STI1435H2014G.html|url-status=dead}} The nominee or nominated institution(s) must be known for their leading practical or intellectual role in the service of Islam and Muslims.{{cite web|title=Nominations: Medicine|url=http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPTopics4MED1435H2014G.html|access-date=2013-08-12|archive-date=2013-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195956/http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPTopics4MED1435H2014G.html|url-status=dead}} Nominated works must be published, benefit mankind and enrich human knowledge.

=Selection=

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.

Prizes

The prize in each of the five categories consists of:{{Cite web|title=King Faisal Prize {{!}} About KFP|url=https://kingfaisalprize.org/about-kfip/|access-date=2021-09-24|language=en-US}}

A Certificate written in Arabic Diwani calligraphy and signed by the Chairman of the Prize board, His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal Bin Abd Al-Aziz, enclosed in a binder of the finest leather inscribed with the winner’s name and a summary of his/her work which qualified him/her for the prize.
A 24 carat 200 gram gold medal, with one side bearing the image of King Faisal, and the prize category written in Arabic, and the other holding the logo of the prize and the prize category in English.
A check of SAR 750 thousand (an equivalent of US$ 200 thousand), distributed equally between the winners if they are more than one.

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.

Country standings

The five countries with most award-winners included 2025 were:{{cite web|title=Winner Archives|url=http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/winnersarchive.html|access-date=2013-08-15|archive-date=2015-05-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503194003/http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/winnersarchive.html|url-status=dead}}{{Update inline|date=October 2016}}

height=60px\|Position	Service to Islam	Islamic Studies	Arabic Language and Literature	Medicine	Science	Total
class="wikitable"
United States	0	1	3	31	28	\|63
Egypt	7	7	23	0	2	\|39
Saudi Arabia	17	9	3	0	0	\|29
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.{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078687.html|title=U.S. professor becomes first Jew to win 'Arab Nobel Prize'|newspaper=Haaretz|date=16 April 2009|access-date=26 February 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213020314/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078687.html|archive-date=13 February 2010}} Ronald Levy was reported to be a Jewish recipient in 2009.

Winners by subject

=Service to Islam=

Year	Branch	Country	Winner name	Winner title
class="wikitable sortable" style="min-height: 200px"
1979	Service to Islam	{{PAK}}	Sayyid Abul Ala'a AI-Moudoodi	Maulana
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| rowspan=2\|1980	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{IND}}	Sayyid Abul-Hasan Ali Al-Hasani Al-Nadawi	Mufakkir-e-Islam
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| {{IDN}}	Mohammad Natsir	Doctor
1981	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	King Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	His Majesty
1982	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Abdulaziz bin Baz	Shaikh
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| rowspan=2\|1983	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{flag\|Egypt\|1972}}	Hasanein M. Makhlouf	Shaikh
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| {{MYS}}	Tunku Abdul Rahman	Prince
1984	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
1985	Service to Islam	{{flag\|Afghanistan\|1980}}	Abdul Rasul Sayyaf	Mr
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| rowspan=2\|1986	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{flag\|South Africa\|1928}}	Ahmad H. Deedat	Mr
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| {{FRA}}	Roger Garaudy	Doctor
1987	Service to Islam	{{NGR}}	Abu Bakr Mahmoud Gumi	Shaikh
1988	Service to Islam	{{flagcountry\|PHI\|1986}}	Ahmad Domocao Alonto	Doctor
1989	Service to Islam	{{EGY}}	Muhammad Al-Ghazali Al-Saqqa	Shaikh
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| rowspan=2\|1990	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{SYR}}	Ali Al-Tantawi	Shaikh
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| {{PAK}}	Khurshid Ahmad	Professor
1991	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Dr. Abdullah Umar Nasif	His Excellency
1992	Service to Islam	{{NIG}}	Dr. Hamid AIgabid	His Excellency
1993	Service to Islam	{{flag\|Bosnia\|1992}}	President Alija Begovitch	President
1994	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Muhammad Ibn Al-Uthaymeen{{cite web \|title=Shaikh Mohammad Bin Saleh Al-Uthaimin \|url=https://kingfaisalprize.org/shaikh-mohammad-bin-saleh-al-uthaimin/ \|website=King Faisal Prize \|access-date=29 August 2019}}	Shaikh
1995	Service to Islam	{{EGY}}	Shaikh Gad AI-Haq Ali Gad AI-Haq	His Eminence
1996	Service to Islam	{{KWT}}	Abd AI-Rahman H. AI-Sumait	Doctor
1997	Service to Islam	{{MYS}}	Dr. Mahathir bin Muhammad	Prime Minister
1998	Service to Islam	{{SEN}}	President Abdou Diouf	His Excellency
1999	Service to Islam	{{UAE}}	Jum'ah AI-Majid Abd Allah	Mr
2000	Service to Islam	{{EGY}}	AI-Azhar AI-Sharif	-
2001	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	The Saudi Arabian High Commission for Donations to Bosnia-Herzegovina	-
2002	Service to Islam	{{UAE}}	Shaikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi	His Highness
2003	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation	-
2004	Service to Islam	{{SUD}}	Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad Siwar Adh-Dahab	Field Marshal
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| rowspan=2\|2005	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Ahmed Mohamed Ali	His Excellency
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| {{LBN}}	AI-Hariri Foundation	-
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| rowspan=2\|2006	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Shaikh Salih bin Abd AlRahman AI-Husayyin	His Excellency
bgcolor="#FFF5F7" \| {{KUW}}	Yusuf bin Jasim bin Mohammad AI-Hidji	Shaikh
2007	Service to Islam	{{RUS}}	Mintimer Sharipovich Shaimev	His Excellency
2008	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
2009	Service to Islam	{{EGY}}	Principal Sharie Society for Quran and Sunnah Scholars Cairo	-
2010	Service to Islam	{{TUR}}	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister
2011	Service to Islam	{{MYS}}	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi	His Excellency
2012	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Sulaiman Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rajhi	Shaikh
2014	Service to Islam	{{NGR}}	Ahmed Lemu	Sheikh, Justice
2015	Service to Islam	{{IND}}	Zakir A. Naik	Doctor
2016	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Salih bin Abdullah al Humaid{{cite web\|url=http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/867826\|title=Saleh bin Humaid wins King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam\|date=20 January 2016\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629194927/http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/867826\|archive-date=29 June 2016}}	Doctor
2017	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Salman bin Abdulaziz	King
2018	Service to Islam	{{INA}}	Irwandi Jaswir	Professor
2019	Service to Islam	{{SUD}}	International University of Africa, Khartoum	-
2020	Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	The Makkah Document	-
2021	Service to Islam	{{KUW}}	Mohammed Al-Sharekh	Mr
rowspan=2\|2022	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{TAN}}	Ali Hassan Mwinyi	His Excellency
{{EGY}}	Hassan Mahmoud Al Shafei	Professor
rowspan=2\|2023	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{KOR}}	Choi Young Kil-Hamed	Professor
{{UAE}}	Nasser bin Abdullah Al Zaabi	His Excellency
rowspan=2\|2024	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{JAP}}	Japan Muslim Association	-
{{LBN}}	Mohammad Sammak	Doctor
rowspan=2\|2025	rowspan=2\|Service to Islam	{{SAU}}	Liajlehum Association for Serving People with Disabilities	-
{{SAU}}	Sami Abdullah Almaghlouth	-

=Islamic studies world wide=

Year	Branch	Topic	Country	Winner name	Winner title
class="wikitable sortable"
1979	Islamic studies	Studies dealing with the influence of Muslim scholars on European civilization	{{GER}}	Fuat Sezgin	Professor
1980	Islamic studies	Studies on the hadith of Muhammad	{{SAU}}	Muhammad Mustafa Azmi	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	{{IND}}	Muhammad Najatuallah Siddiqui	Professor
1983	Islamic studies	Studies on the Quran	{{flagcountry\|EGY\|1972}}	Muhammad A. Odaimah	Professor
1984	Islamic studies	General theory in Islamic jurisprudence	{{SYR}}	Mustafa A. AI-Zarka'a	Shaikh
rowspan=3\|1985	rowspan=3\|Islamic studies	rowspan=3\| Studies and editions on the Islamic doctrine	{{SAU}}	Muhammad Rashad Salim	Professor
{{EGY}}	Farouk A Oesouki	Doctor
{{EGY}}	Mustafa M. Suliman	Doctor
1986	Islamic studies	Studies dealing with Islamic history	{{flag\|Iraq\|1963}}	Abd AI-Aziz AI-Duri	Professor
1987	Islamic studies	Principles and practices of international relations in Islam	-	Not awarded	-
rowspan=2\|1988	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\|Studies dealing with Islamic education	{{EGY}}	Muhammad Kotb Shathly	-
{{TUR}}	Mikdat Yalçın	Professor
1989	Islamic studies	Studies dealing with the Islamic city	{{flag\|Iraq\|1963}}	Saleh Ahmad AI-Ali	Professor
rowspan=2\|1990	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\|Financial dealings in Islamic Shari'ah	{{SUD}}	Al-Seddiq M. Al-Darir	Professor
{{SAU}}	Umer Chapra	Doctor
1991	Islamic studies	Studies dealing with the spread of Islam into an area outside the present boundaries of the Islamic World	-	Not awarded	-
1992	Islamic studies	Origins of research methodologies in contemporary	-	Not awarded	-
1993	Islamic studies	Muslim achievements in the field of sociology	{{EGY}}	Hasan As-Sa'ati Abd AI Aziz	Professor
rowspan=2\|1994	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\|Studies dealing with Islamic law	{{EGY}}	EI-Sayyid Sabiq At-Tihami	Shaikh
{{QAT}}	Yousef A. AI-Qaradawi	Doctor
1995	Islamic studies	Studies dealing with thematic commentary of the Quran	-	Not awarded	-
1996	Islamic studies	The life of Muhammad	{{flag\|Iraq\|1991}}	Akram Dia'a Al-Umari	Professor
1997	Islamic studies	Studies on the status of women in Islam	{{flag\|Iraq\|1991}}	Abd AI-Karim Zedan Biej	Professor
rowspan=2\|1998	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\|Studies on libraries or the evolution of Islamic book craft	{{EGY}}	Abd AI-Sattar Al-Halwaji	Professor
{{SAU}}	Yahia M. bin Junaid	Professor
1999	Islamic studies	Contributions to the study, verification and authentication of the hadith	{{ALB}}	Shaikh Muhammad Nasir Ad-Din Al-Albani	Shaikh
2000	Islamic studies	Studies dealing with the spread and cultural impact of Islam outside the Arab	{{BAN}}	Muhammad Mohar Ali	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	-
rowspan=2\|2003	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\|Studies dealing with history of Islamic economics	{{SUD}}	Izz EI-Din Omar Mousa	Professor
{{MAR}}	Ibrahim Abu Bakr Harakat	Professor
rowspan=2\|2004	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\|Basics of Islamic jurisprudence	{{SAU}}	Yacoub Abd AI-wahab AIBahussain	Doctor
{{IND}}	Ali Ahmad Ghulam Muhammad Nadvi	Doctor
2005	Islamic studies	Defense of the Islamic state during the 5th and 6th centuries A.H	{{UK}}	Carole Hillenbrand	Professor
2006	Islamic studies	The origins of Islamic jurisprudence	-	Not awarded
2007	Islamic studies	Muslims' contribution to pure or applied sciences	{{FRA}}	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)	{{MAR}}	Abdessalam M. Cheddadi	Professor
2010	Islamic studies	Studies dealing with religious endowments (Waqf) in Islam	-	Withheld	-
rowspan=2\|2011	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\| Socioeconomic aspects in the Islamic world through 10th–13th century H;	{{TUR}}	Halil İbrahim İnalcık	Professor
{{JOR}}	Muhammad Adnan Bakhit Al-Sheyyab	Professor
2012	Islamic studies	Human rights in Islam	{{SAU}}	Professor Adnaan Bin Muhammad Al-Wazan	His Excellency
2015	Islamic studies	Cultural heritage of Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah	{{SAU}}	Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Kaki	Doctor
2016	Islamic studies	Muslim geography heritage	{{KUW}}	Abdullah bin Yousif Al-Ghunaim	Professor
2018	Islamic studies	Critical editions of Islamic historical and biographical texts	{{JOR}}	Bashar Awad	Professor
2020	Islamic studies	Islamic heritage of Alquds	{{JOR}}	Mohammed Hashim Ghosheh	Doctor
2021	Islamic studies	Endowment in Islam \|
\| Withheld	-
2022	Islamic studies	Andalus's Islamic heritage \|
\| Withheld	-
2023	Islamic studies	Islamic architecture	{{UK}}	Robert Hillenbrand	Professor
2024	Islamic studies	Islamic Legislations and their Contemporary Applications	{{USA}}	Wael Hallaq	Professor
rowspan=2\|2025	rowspan=2\|Islamic studies	rowspan=2\| Studies of Archaeology in the Arabian Peninsula	{{SAU}}	Said Faiz Alsaid	Professor
{{SAU}}	Saad Abdulaziz Alrashid	Professor

=Arabic language and literature=

Year	Branch	Topic	Country	Winner name	Winner title
class="wikitable sortable"
1979	Arabic language and literature	Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry	-	Not awarded	-
rowspan=2\|1980	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\|Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry	{{PLE}}	Ihsan Abbas	Professor
{{flag\|Egypt\|1972}}	Abd Al-Qadir Al-Qit	Professor
1981	Arabic language and literature	Editing literary manuscripts from the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.H.	{{flag\|Egypt\|1972}}	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.	{{JOR}}	Nasir Al-Din Al-Asad	Professor
1983	Arabic language and literature	Studies on ancient Arabic literature during the 2nd and 3rd centuries	{{flag\|Egypt\|1972}}	Ahmad Shawqi Daif	Professor
1984	Arabic language and literature	Studies on Arabic literature during the 4th century A.H.	{{EGY}}	Mahmoud Mohamed Shaker	-
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.	{{flag\|Iraq\|1963}}	Muhammad Bahjat Athari	-
1987	Arabic language and literature	Literary studies on modern Arabic prose	-	Not awarded	-
rowspan=2 \| 1988	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Studies on Arabic literature in Andalusia	{{MAR}}	Mohammad Bin Sharifah	Professor
{{EGY}}	Mahmoud Y. Makki	Professor
rowspan=2\|1989	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Studies dealing with prominent Arab writers and poets to the end of the 3rd century A.H.	{{EGY}}	Yousef A. Khulaif	Professor
{{SYR}}	Shaker Al-Fahham	Professor
1990	Arabic language and literature	Short Novels	{{EGY}}	Yahia M. Haqqi	Mr
rowspan=3\|1991	rowspan=3\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=3\| Children's Literature	{{MAR}}	MAli Abd Al-Qadir Al Siqilli	Mr
{{EGY}}	Abd Al Tawwab Yousef	Mr
{{EGY}}	Ahmed M. Najeeb	-
rowspan=3\|1992	rowspan=3\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=3\| Translations of literary and critical studies into Arabic	{{LIB}}	Mohammad Yousef Najm	Professor
{{EGY}}	Abd Alfattah Shukri Ayyad	Professor
{{EGY}}	Mohammad Mustafa Badawi	Professor
1993	Arabic language and literature	Plays written in metrical or prose Arabic	-	Not awarded	-
rowspan=2\|1994	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Studies dealing with ancient Arabic prose	{{USA}}	Wadad Afif Kadi	Professor
{{EGY}}	Aisha Abd Al Rahman "Bint ash shati"	Professor
rowspan=3\|1995	rowspan=3\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=3\| Studies dealing with prominent contemporary Arab writers	{{EGY}}	Mohammad Abu Al-Anwar Mohammad Ali	Professor
{{EGY}}	Hamdi Sayyid Ahmed El Sakkout	Professor
{{SYR}}	Salma Lutfi Al-Haffar Al-Kowzbari	-
1996	Arabic language and literature	Literature analyzing the writings of early Arab travelers	{{SAU}}	Hamad Bin Mohamad Al Jasir	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	-
rowspan=2\|1999	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Comparative studies between Arabic and other literatures: theoretical and applied aspects	{{MAR}}	Said Abd Al-Salam Allouche	-
{{EGY}}	Makarim Ahmed Al-Ghamri	Professor
rowspan=2\|2000	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Studies pertaining to early Arab literary critics	{{EGY}}	Izz Ad-Din Ismail Abd-Al Ghani	Professor
{{SUD}}	Abd Allah Al-Tayyeb	-
rowspan=2\|2001	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Studies dealing with modern Arabic prose	{{SAU}}	Mansour Ibrahim Al Hazmi	Professor
{{JOR}}	Ibrahim Abd Al-Rahim Al Saafin	Professor
rowspan=2\|2002	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Studies of modern Palestinian literature	{{JOR}}	Husni Mahmoud Hussein	Professor
{{SYR}}	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	{{EGY}}	Hussain M Nassar	Professor
2005	Arabic language and literature	Arabic prose in the 4th and 5th centuries A.H.	-	Not awarded	-
rowspan=2\|2006	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| The Arabic language in modern linguistics	{{MAR}}	Abdelkader Fassi Fehri	-
{{EGY}}	Tammam Hassan Omar	Professor
rowspan=2\|2007	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\|Studies on ancient Arabic rhetoric	{{EGY}}	Mustafa A. Nasif	Professor
{{MAR}}	Muhammad A. Al-Omari	Professor
rowspan=2\|2008	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Terminology Issues of the Arabic language	{{TUN}}	Muhammad Rachad Hamzaoui	Professor
{{IRQ}}	Ahmed Matloob Al-Nasir	Professor
2009	Arabic language and literature	Verification of poetry, prose and anthology through 300 H – 700 H	{{SAU}}	Abd Al-Aziz Bin Nasir Al-Manie	Professor
rowspan=2\|2010	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\|Studies Dealing with Arabic Grammatical Thought	{{LIB}}	Ramzi Mounir Baalbaki	Professor
{{ALG}}	Abderrahman El-Houari Hadj-Saleh	Professor
2011	Arabic language and literature	Renovation trends in Arabic poetry up to the end of the 7th century H.	-	Not awarded	-
rowspan=2\|2012	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Computer processing of the Arabic language: individual and institutional endeavors	{{EGY}}	Nabil Ali Mohamed	Professor
{{EGY}}	Ali Helmy Ahmed Moussa	Professor
2013	Arabic language and literature	Individual and institutional efforts In writing Arabic dictionaries	{{EGY}}	Arabic language Academy In Cairo	-
2015	Arabic language and literature	Venture towards Arabisation of scientific and medical matters	-	Withheld	-
rowspan=2\|2016	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Analysis of the Arabic poetic text	{{EGY}}	Mohamed Abdalmotaleb Mostafa	Professor
{{MAR}}	Mohammed El-Ghazouani Miftah	Professor
2018	Arabic language and literature	Studies dealing with autobiography in Arabic literature	{{TUN}}	Shukri Mabkhout	Professor
rowspan=2\|2019	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and contemporary challenges	{{MAR}}	Abdelali Mohamed Oudrhiri	Doctor
{{EGY}}	Mahmoud Fahmy Hegazi	Doctor
2020	Arabic language and literature	Linguistic studies on Arabic in other languages	{{AUS}}	Michael G. Carter	Professor
2021	Arabic language and literature	The new rhetoric	{{MAR}}	Mohamed Mechbal	Professor
rowspan=2\|2022	rowspan=2\| Arabic language and literature	rowspan=2\| Arabic literature studies in English	{{USA}}	Suzanne Stetkevych	Professor
{{USA}}	Muhsin Al-Musawi	Professor
2023	Arabic language and literature	Classical Arabic narrative and modern theories	{{MAR}}	Abdelfattah Kilito	Professor
2024	Arabic language and literature	Non-Arab Institutions and their Endeavors to Promote Arabic	-	Withheld	-
2025	Arabic language and literature	Studies of Identity in Arabic Literature	-	Withheld	-

=Medicine=

width=40px\|Year	width=60px\|Branch	width=220px\|Topic	width=160px\|Country	width=220px\|Winner name	Winner title
class="wikitable sortable"
1982	Medicine	Primary health care	{{UK}}	David C. Morley	Professor
1983	Medicine	Malaria	{{UK}}	Wallace Peters	Professor
rowspan=3\|1984	rowspan=3\| Medicine	rowspan=3\| Diarrheal diseases	{{USA}}	Michael Field (de)	Professor
{{USA}}	William B. Greenough III	Professor
{{USA}}	John S. Fordtran	Professor
rowspan=2\|1985	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Viral hepatitis	{{USA}}	R. Palmer Beasley	Professor
{{ITA}}	Mario Rizzetto	Professor
rowspan=3\| 1986	rowspan=3\| Medicine	rowspan=3\|Diabetes mellitus	{{SUI}}	Albert Renold	Professor
{{ITA}}	Lelio Orci	Professor
{{ITA}}	Gian Franco Bottazzo	-
1987	Medicine	Prevention of blindness	{{NZL}}	Barrie Russell Jones	Professor
rowspan=2\|1988	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Leukemia	{{UK}}	Melvin F. Greaves
{{USA}}	Janet D. Rawley	Professor
rowspan=2\|1989	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\|Infertility	{{UK}}	Robert G. Edwards File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{USA}}	Luigi Mastroianni Jr.	Professor
rowspan=2\|1990	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Schistosomiasis	{{UK}}	Anthony E. Butterworth	Professor
{{FRA}}	André Capron	Professor
1991	Medicine	Biochemical aspects of mental health	-	Not awarded	-
1992	Medicine	Coronary artery disease	{{ITA}}	Attilio Maseri	Professor
rowspan=3\|1993	rowspan=3\| Medicine	rowspan=3\| Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases	{{FRA}}	Françoise Barré-Sinoussi File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{FRA}}	Jean-Claude Chermann	Professor
{{FRA}}	Luc Montagnier File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=2\|1994	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Medical applications of genetic engineering	{{UK}}	Robert Williamson (de)	Professor
{{USA}}	W. French Anderson	Professor
rowspan=3\|1995	rowspan=3\| Medicine	rowspan=3\| Molecular immunology	{{CAN}}	Tak W. Mak	Professor
{{USA}}	Mark M. Davis	Professor
{{UK}}	Gregory P. Winter File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Sir
rowspan=2\|1996	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Management of the premature infant	{{JPN}}	Tetsurō Fujiwara	Professor
{{SWE}}	Bengt Robertson	Professor
rowspan=3\|1997	rowspan=3\| Medicine	rowspan=3\| Degenerative diseases of the nervous system	{{GER}}	Konrad Beyreuther	Professor
{{CAN}}	James F. Gusella	Professor
{{AUS}}	Colin L. Masters	Professor
rowspan=2\|1998	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Control of communicable diseases	{{USA}}	Robert H. Purcell	Professor
{{USA}}	John L. Gerin	Professor
rowspan=2\|1999	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Allergic diseases	{{UK}}	Stephen T. Holgate
{{AUS}}	{{ill\|Patrick G. Holt\|de}}	Professor
2000	Medicine	Ageing	{{USA}}	Cynthia Jane Kenyon	Professor
rowspan=3\|2001	rowspan=3\| Medicine	rowspan=3\| Organ transplantation	{{USA}}	Norman E. Shumway	Professor
{{UK}}	Roy Calne	Professor
{{USA}}	Thomas Starzl	Professor
rowspan=2\|2002	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\|Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure	{{DEN}}	{{ill\|Finn Waagstein\|de}}	Professor
{{USA}}	Eugene Braunwald	Professor
rowspan=2\|2003	rowspan=2\|Medicine	rowspan=2\| Breast cancer	{{ITA}}	Umberto Veronesi	Professor
{{GER}}	Axel Ullrich	Professor
2004	Medicine	Invasive cardiology	{{SUI}}	Ulrich Sigwart	Professor
rowspan=2\|2005	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Tobacco risks on human health	{{UK}}	Richard Doll	Sir
{{UK}}	Richard Peto	Sir
2006		Biology of vascular inflammation	{{USA}}	{{ill\|Michael Anthony Gimbrone\|de}} Jr.	Professor
rowspan=2\|2007	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Prostate cancer	{{CAN}}	Fernand Labrie	Professor
{{USA}}	{{ill\|Patrick Craig Walsh\|de}}	Professor
rowspan=2\|2008	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Trauma management	{{USA}}	Donald Trunkey	Professor
{{USA}}	{{ill\|Basil A. Pruitt\|de}} Jr.	Professor
2009	Medicine	Molecular targeted therapy	{{USA}}	Ronald Levy	Professor
rowspan=3\|2010	rowspan=3\| Medicine	rowspan=3\| Non-arthroplasty management of degenerative joint disease	{{GER}}	{{ill\|Reinhold Ganz\|de}}	Professor
{{CAN}}	Johanne Martel-Pelletier	Professor
{{CAN}}	{{ill\|Jean-Pierre Pelletier\|de}}	Professor
rowspan=2\|2011	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\|Stem cell therapy	{{USA}}	James A. Thomson	Professor
{{JPN}}	Shinya Yamanaka File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=2\|2012	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\|Minimal invasive fetal management	{{USA}}	{{ill\|Richard L. Berkowitz\|de}}	Professor
{{USA}}	{{ill\|James B. Bussel\|de}}	Professor
rowspan=2\|2013	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\|The genetics of obesity	{{USA}}	Jeffrey M. Friedman	Professor
{{CAN}}	Douglas L. Coleman	Professor
2014	Medicine	Non-invasive diagnosis of fetal diseases	{{HKG}}	Yuk Ming Dennis Lo	Professor
2015	Medicine	Intestinal microflora and human health	{{USA}}	Jeffrey Ivan Gordon	Professor
rowspan=2\|2016	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Clinical application of next generation genetics	{{NED}}	{{ill\|Joris Andre Veltman\|de}}	Professor
{{NED}}	{{ill\|Han G. Brunner\|de}}	Professor
2017	Medicine	Biologic therapeutics in autoimmune diseases	{{JPN}}	Tadamitsu Kishimoto	Professor
2018	Medicine	Immunotherapy for cancer	{{USA}}	James P. Allison File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=2\|2019	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Bone biology and osteoporosis	{{USA}}	Steven L. Teitelbaum	Professor
{{NOR}}	Bjorn Reino Olsen	Professor
2020	Medicine	Haemoglobinopathies	{{USA}}	Stuart H. Orkin	Professor
rowspan=2\|2021	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Regenerative medicine in neurological conditions	{{USA}}	Stephen Mark Strittmatter	Professor
{{UK}}	Robin James Milroy Franklin	Professor
2022	Medicine	Gene editing technologies	{{USA}}	David Ruchien Liu	Professor
rowspan=2\|2023	rowspan=2\| Medicine	rowspan=2\| Pandemics and vaccine development	{{USA}}	Dan Barouch	Professor
{{UK}}	Sarah Catherine Gilbert	Professor
2024	Medicine	Management of Peripheral Disabilities	{{USA}}	Jerry R. Mendell	Professor
2025	Medicine	Cellular Therapy	{{CAN}}	Michel Sadelain	Professor

=Science=

width=40px\|Year	width=60px\|Branch	width=110px\|Topic	width=200px\|Country	width=240px\|Winner name	Winner title
class="wikitable sortable" \|height=100px\|
rowspan=2\|1984	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{SUI}}	Heinrich Rohrer File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{GER}}	Gerd Binnig File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
1985	Science	-	-	Not awarded	-
1986	Science	Biochemistry	{{UK}}	Michael John Berridge	Sir
1987	Science	Mathematics	{{UK}}	Michael Atiyah	Sir
rowspan=2\|1988	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Biology	{{UK}}	Ricardo Miledi	Professor
{{FRA}}	Pierre Chambon	Professor
rowspan=2\|1989	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{GER}}	Theodor W. Hänsch File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{EGY}} / {{USA}}	Ahmed Hassan Zewail File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=3\|1990	rowspan=3\|Science	rowspan=3\|Chemistry	{{CAN}}	Raymond Urgel Lemieux	Professor
{{EGY}} / {{USA}}	Mostafa El-Sayed	Professor
{{USA}}	Frank Albert Cotton	Professor
1991	Science	Mathematics	-	Not awarded	-
1992	Science	Biology	{{flag\|South Africa\|1928}}	Sydney Brenner File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=2\|1993	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{USA}}	Steven Chu File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{GER}}	Herbert Walther	Professor
1994	Science	Mathematics	{{USA}}	Dennis Parnell Sullivan	Professor
1995	Science	Chemistry	{{USA}}	K. Barry Sharpless File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=3\|1996	rowspan=3\|Science	rowspan=3\|Biology	{{USA}}	Günter Blobel File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{USA}}	James E. Rothman File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{UK}}	Hugh Pelham	Professor
rowspan=2\|1997	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{USA}}	Eric Allin Cornell File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{USA}}	Carl E. Wieman File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
1998	Science	Mathematics	{{UK}}	Andrew John Wiles	Sir
rowspan=2\|1999	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Chemistry	{{GER}}	Dieter Seebach	Professor
{{JPN}}	Ryoji Noyori File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=2\|2000	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Biology	{{USA}}	John Craig Venter	Professor
{{USA}}	Edward O.Wilson	Professor
rowspan=2\|2001	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{USA}}	Chen Ning Yang File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{CAN}}	Sajeev O. John	Professor
rowspan=2\|2002	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Mathematics	{{USA}}	Peter W. Shor	Professor
{{RUS}}	Yuri I. Manin	Professor
rowspan=2\|2003	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Chemistry	{{JPN}}	Koji Nakanishi	Professor
{{USA}}	M. Frederick Hawthorne	Professor
2004	Science	Biology	{{UK}}	Semir Zeki	Professor
rowspan=3\|2005	rowspan=3\|Science	rowspan=3\|Physics	{{USA}}	Federico Capasso	Professor
{{AUT}}	Anton Zeilinger File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{USA}}	Frank Wilczek File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
rowspan=2\|2006	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Mathematics	{{UK}}	Simon Kirwan Donaldson	Professor
{{IND}}	Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan	Professor
2007	Science	Chemistry	{{UK}}	James Fraser Stoddart File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
2008	Science	Biology	{{GER}}	{{ill\|Rüdiger Wehner\|de}}	Professor
rowspan=2\|2009	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{RUS}}	Rashid A. Sunyaev	Professor
{{UK}}	Richard H. Friend	Sir
rowspan=2\|2010	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Mathematics	{{AUS}}	Terence Chi-Shen Tao	Professor
{{ITA}}	Enrico Bombieri	Professor
rowspan=2\|2011	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Chemistry	{{USA}}	George M. Whitesides	Professor
{{USA}}	Richard Zare	Professor
2012	Science	Biology	{{USA}}	Alexander Jacob Varshavsky	Professor
rowspan=2\|2013	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{HUN}} / {{AUT}}	Ferenc Krausz File:Nobel prize medal.svg	Professor
{{CAN}}	Paul B. Corkum	Professor
2014	Science	Mathematics	{{GER}}	Gerd Faltings	Professor
rowspan=2\|2015	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Chemistry	{{SUI}}	Michael Grätzel	Professor
{{JOR}} / {{USA}}	Omar Mwannes Yaghi	Professor
rowspan=2\|2016	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Biology	{{USA}}	Vamsi Krishna Mootha	Professor
{{UK}}	Stephen Philip Jackson	Professor
rowspan=2\|2017	rowspan=2\|Science	rowspan=2\|Physics	{{SUI}}	Daniel Loss	Professor
{{NED}}	Laurens Molenkamp	Professor
2018	Science	Mathematics	{{UK}}	John M. Ball	Sir
rowspan=2\|2019	rowspan=2\| Science	rowspan=2\|Chemistry	{{USA}}	Allen J. Bard	Professor
{{USA}}	Jean Fréchet	Professor
2020	Science	Biology	{{USA}}	Xiaodong Wang	Professor
2021	Science	Physics	{{UK}}	Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin	Professor
rowspan=2\|2022	rowspan=2\| Science	rowspan=2\|Mathematics	{{UK}}	Martin Hairer	Professor
{{TUN}}	Nader Masmoudi	Professor[https://twitter.com/KingFaisalPrize Laureates 2022]
rowspan=2\|2023	rowspan=2\| Science	rowspan=2\|Chemistry	{{USA}}	Jackie Yi-Ru Ying	Professor
{{USA}}	Chad Alexander Mirkin	Professor[https://kingfaisalprize.org/laureates King Faisal Prize Laureates 2023]
2024	Science	Biology	{{USA}}	Howard Y. Chang	Professor[https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/01/10/2807410/0/en/Distinguished-Scientists-with-Breakthroughs-in-Gene-Therapy-for-Neuromuscular-Diseases-and-Revolutionary-RNA-Discoveries-Announced-as-King-Faisal-Prize-Laureates-in-Medicine-Scienc.html Laureates 2024]
2025	Science	Physics	{{JAP}}	Sumio Iijima	Professor[https://kingfaisalprize.org/ Laureates 2025]

References

External links

[http://kingfaisalprize.org/ Official Website of King Faisal Prize]
[https://archive.today/20130811234321/http://kfip.busyduck.org/all-winners/ Complete List of All-time Winners of King Faisal Award]
[http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPImages/KFIP%20Winners%20Archive-Yearly.pdf PDF: Official Archive of all-time winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406224126/http://www.kff.com/EN01/KFIP/KFIPImages/KFIP%20Winners%20Archive-Yearly.pdf |date=2012-04-06 }}
[http://www.ummid.com/news/2014/January/15.01.2014/2014-faisal-award.html King Faisal Awards 2014]
[https://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200005/rays.of.light.and.brightness-the.king.faisal.international.prize.htm/ Rays of Light and Brightness: The King Faisal International Prize by Peter Harrigan, Saudi Aramco World Magazine, Sep/Oct 2000, Vol 51, Nmbr 5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823190926/https://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200005/rays.of.light.and.brightness-the.king.faisal.international.prize.htm/ |date=2015-08-23 }}

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