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Islamic personality of the year announced
Staff Report
Last updated: September 12, 2008, 01:54
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Dubai: The Dubai International Holy Quran's Islamic personality of the year has been awarded not to a personality, but to an organisation - the King Fahd Complex based in Madinah, for publishing the Holy Quran.

The award was announced in a ceremony held at the Cultural and Scientific Association in Mamzar on Thursday.

The winner gets a Dh 1 million reward for contributions and achievements in the Islamic world.

The Dubai International Holy Quran Award is now its 12th year and is held under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

Eighty-five contestants from different countries participated in the prestigious Quran recitation competition this year.

This is the second time that an organisation has been awarded this honour. Earlier, Al Azhar won it in the sixth year.


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The organisers of Dubai International Holy Quran Awards will honour Saudi Arabia's services for Islam during the concluding ceremony of the 12th session of the annual event by bestowing the Islamic Personality of the Year Award upon the King Fahad Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran.

The King Fahad Complex is the only second organisation to get this award since its inception over a decade ago. The first organisation was the famous Al Azhar University of Cairo.

King Fahd Bin Abdel Aziz, the Custodian of the Two Holy Shrines, laid the cornerstone of the Complex in 1403 AH and inaugurated it in 1405 AH. The average annual production of the Complex is 10 million copies, the distribution is the same. It has produced more than 90 editions and 165 million copies and has so far distributed more than 142 million copies to Muslims all over world continents. The Complex has published 55 different translations of the Holy Quran in 39 languages.

It always makes continuous studies and researches for the service of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah.

The Complex has the most advanced printing technologies in the world. The Complex offers each pilgrim a copy of the Mushaf on his way back home after completing Hajj rituals. Important considerations have accounted for the establishment of the Complex:

First, the increasing need of the Muslim world for the Glorious Quran and its related fields of study.

Second, the importance of providing the best services for the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH), the important role which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plays in the service of Islam and Muslims.

Besides printing and distributing the Holy Quran, the complex also produces audio-recordings of the Holy Quran, translates the meaning of the Holy Quran and its interpretation, promotes Quranic fields of study, the study of the Sunnah and the Prophet's Biography, supports Islamic studies and researches and provides domestic and international networks with the Complex publications.

Since its inception in 1998, organisers of the DIHQA has honoured several eminent personalities with the Islamic Personality of the Year Award including Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Dr Yusuf Al Qardawi, Maulana Abul Hasan Nadwi, Mohammed Mutwali Al Shaarawi, Dr Alija Izetbegovic, Dr Abdullah Bin Abdul Mohsin Al Turki, Al Azhar University, renowned Islamic scholar Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan Al Bouti and renowned Islamic scholar Dr Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Sudais.