PREVIOUS PRIZE 1997-2005

The Academy awards this international prize to encourage young scholars who have produced creative and innovative research and outstanding academic work in any specialisation related to Islamic Jerusalem Studies. The winner of the Prize receives a certificate and a cash prize. In addition the last three winners were invited to present a paper at the international academic conference on Islamic Jerusalem Studies.

  FIRST PRIZE 1997

In 1997 ISRA decided to present the first Prize together with certificate and a cash prize to a young Scholar on the field of Islamic Jerusalem.   
he Prize Committee of the Academy decided to award the 1997 Islamicjerusalem Prize for Young Scholars to Dr. Muhsin Saleh -assistant professor at the International Islamic University in Malaysia-, for his book "The Road to Jerusalem": A Historical Study of the Islamic experience in Palestine, from the times of the Prophets to the end of the twentieth century.  This book was published in 1995.
 

  SECOND PRIZE 1999

In 1998 the Prize Committee decided to hold back the prize for 1998 as the publications submitted did not reach the academic criteria.  Moreover in 1999 the Management Committee decided that the prize went to: Mr. Haithem al-Ratrout -one of the winners of the PhD Scholarships the academy' offers-, for his Master thesis "a New Theory to Explain the Architectural Design and Planning of the Dome of the Rock".  It was later published by ISRA in 2002.

  THIRD PRIZE 2003

In 2003 the Management Committee decided that the prize went to: Dr. Othman Al-Tel -one of the winners of the PhD Scholarships the academy' offers-, for his PhD thesis "The First Islamic Conquest of Aelia (Islamic Jerusalem); a Critical Analytical Study of the Early Islamic Historical Narratives and Sources", published in 2003 by the Al-Maktoum Institute Academic Press.

  FORTH PRIZE 2005

In 2005 the Management Committee decided that the prize went to: Dr. Maher Abu Munsharl -one of the winners of the PhD Scholarships the academy' offers-, for his PhD thesis "A Historical Study of  Muslim treatment of Christians in Islamicjerusalem at the time of Umar Ibn al-Khattab and Salah al-Din with special reference to Islamic value of Justice "