Al-Shahrani and Al-Sulami share MWL top prize

JEDDAH: Saad Al-Shahrani, associate professor at Umm Al-Qura University, and Miteb bin Khalaf Al-Sulami, associate professor of Taif University, shared the top prize of an international essay contest organized by the Muslim World League (MWL) in 2007 on “War ethics in the Prophet’s life.”

Al-Shahrani and Al-Sulami will share the first prize valued at SR400,000. The second prize — valued at SR300,000 — was shared by Muhammad bin Ahmed Al-Mabeed, a lecturer at Al-Quds Open University in Gaza, and Hassan Al-Bashir Al-Tailush, a researcher.

The SR200,000 third prize went to Munsif Lakresi, a professor at Qadi Ayad University in Morocco, and Nabeel Fuli Muhammad Munji, associate professor at the International Islamic University in Islamabad. The first essay contest on the Prophet’s life was organized 34 years ago when the first conference on the topic was held in Pakistan. At that event, Safiyurrahman Mubarakfuri of the Salafi University in India won the first prize. The topic of the next contest is the “Etiquette of family dealings in the Prophet’s life.”