{"id":3665,"date":"2015-02-04T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2015-02-04T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:12:06","slug":"dr-zakir-naik-wins-king-faisal-international-prize-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/dr-zakir-naik-wins-king-faisal-international-prize-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Zakir Naik wins King Faisal Prize 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Zakir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3666\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Zakir.jpg\" alt=\"Zakir\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Zakir.jpg 225w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Zakir-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Zakir-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>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 .<br \/>\nAccording to Arab News,\u00a0 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.<br \/>\nThe 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).<br \/>\nThe award for Islamic studies went to Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Kaki, a consultant at Madinah Development Authority.<br \/>\nAccording to the citation read out by Al-Othaimeen, Naik has become a renowned authority on comparative religion. \u201cHe has founded a TV channel called Peace TV, which remains the only channel in the world specialized in comparative religion with huge audience profile,\u201d said the citation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/dr-zakir-naik-wins-king-faisal-international-prize-2015\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,\u00a0 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}