Professor Abderrahman El-Houari Hadj-Saleh (Algeria); -- Professor Ramzi Mounir Baalbaki (Lebanon). Professor Elhaj-Saleh received the award in recognition of his insightful analysis of al-Khalil"s linguistic theory, its relation to contemporary grammatical thought, its originality and its place among other grammatical concepts, as well as his prominent contributions to the advancement of Arabic linguistics and Arabicization movement. Professor Baalabakki is recognized for his outstanding original research on Arabic grammatical thought. His publications, in Arabic and English, have enhanced Arabic grammar education in western institutions and familiarized western researchers with the fundamental manuscript of Si-Bawaihi, a revered ancient scholar and founder of Arabic grammar, whose thoughts and methods have profoundly influenced his successors to the present day. The Prize for Islamic Studies (Studies Dealing with Religious Endowments (Waqf) in Islam) has been withheld for lack of sufficiently meritorious nominations.
