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Nobel Prize Winners & Muslims


I didn't know we had this much world class talent in the Muslim world - did you ? - ( note this is the result of googling, so may not be complete.. ) Are there any other Muslims who are top of their field and deserve a notable mention ?

pics (clockwise from top left - Anwar Al-Sadat, Mohamed Elbaradei, Dr. Abdus Salam, Yasser Arafat, Muhammad Yunus, Orhan Pamuk, Shirin Ebadi, Ahmed Zewail, Naguib Mahfouz)

Orhan Pamuk - (Nobel prize for Literature, 2006) Turkish novelist

Professor Muhammad Yunus and his bank (Peace: 2006) , Bangladeshi anti-poverty activist, founder of grameen bank who provide loans & finance to 6 million underpriviledged people

Shirin Ebadi (Peace prize: 2003), Iranian, first Muslim woman winner of a Nobel prize, Lawyer, judge, activist for democracy and human rights, founder of the Association for Support of Children's Rights

Naguib Mahfouz (Literature: 1988) Egyptian writer

Dr. Abdus Salam (1979: Physics), Paksitani, 1st Muslim Nobel prize winner; contributor to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral current

Mohamad Albaradei, & International Atomic Energy Agency (Peace: 2005) for efforts to prevent nuclear energy being used for military purposes/ ensuring nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way

Yasser Arafat (1994: Peace) - jointly with Rabin and Peres, for effortsd towards Middle East peace

Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat (Peace: 1978), joint winner with Israeli President Begin, for negotiating peace between Israel & Egypt

Ahmed Zewail (1999:Chemistry) for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy

from www.almaz.com

more on Pamuk and Ebadi www.nobelprize.org (Ebadi) www.time.com (Pamuk)
 

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Login to find out (December 12, 2006 at 5:58pm)
well... if some one make changes in the deen and openly claims it and practice it and still call themselves Muslim..it will be dangerous for Islam as new comers might see it as an accepted way of practicing Islam..
which will be misguiding and deceiving
Munafeqeeen (those who pretend are Muslims but are not) are told in quran to be the worst enemy.....
There fore its not about calling anyone muslim or non muslim..its about protecting the deen from forgery and protecting its content from manipulation.and protecting its boundaries.. as if we dont do that it might fell in to the same trap which Christians and bible got in...
 
Login to find out (December 12, 2006 at 5:45pm)
labs-i agree with you on this issue being discussed in the comments. i was asked by people to actually stop talking to a good friend of mine after it was known she was ahmedi. isn't that ridiculous?

anyway, woo hoo! we have some great talent, but how much more is out there that we don't know about or the opportunities most muslim kids won't ever receive?
 
Login to find out (December 12, 2006 at 3:55am)
'we dont have the right to say one is muslim and one is not', that's all i'm trying to say
 
Login to find out (December 11, 2006 at 10:28pm)
ahmedi=qadiyani correct?
as far as my understanding through my friends is that they don't believe prophet mohammed pbuh was the last prophet, and our kalima states that Allah is great and mohammed is the prophet of Allah..i know in pakistan they are not considered muslim although they pray and fast. khan is right, we dont have the right to say one is muslim and one is not. That is for Allah to decide.
 
Login to find out (December 11, 2006 at 8:39pm)
well..praying and all those personal stuff will be judged by Allah JTWS..He is to decide if those of them will be accepte dor not..
But adding new things to deen is haram and is dangerous that is why there are clear boundaries between muslims and non muslims and Munafeqeen...
That is the very basic principles in Islam to preserve it.

by saying that i need to do more research on it ..bcos i am not expert on this subject matter....
 
Login to find out (December 11, 2006 at 2:43pm)
i have heard of that

but when someone is praying/ saying the kalima/ fasting etc. in the same way as every other Muslim and telling you to pray/ give zakat etc. i find it hard to consider them non-Muslims

- there are a lot of 'muslims' on this site from the sunni/ shia sects who simply call themselves born muslims and make no effort to practice religion whatsoever by comparison
 
Login to find out (December 11, 2006 at 2:27pm)
i have to do sum research on da topic though
 
Login to find out (December 11, 2006 at 2:26pm)
ummm..im not sure bout KALIMA..But they r proven to b non muslims by the Ulemas and in Pak laws have been made to prevent them to be liste as Muslims...
 
Login to find out (December 11, 2006 at 1:54pm)
as far as they've told me they have the same kalima
 
Login to find out (December 10, 2006 at 10:22pm)
no they r not muslims they have different Kalima... and to them Ghulam ahmad Qadiyan was the last prophet...
 
Login to find out (December 10, 2006 at 8:04am)
thanks khan,

qadianis and other sects are still Muslims though aren't they, as long as they believe in the kalima, pray etc.
 
Login to find out (December 10, 2006 at 1:18am)
wow great find Labs..n happy birth day..may ur all dreams...(not those kind ones;)) be true..
BTW Abdul Salam wasnt Muslim he was a Qadyani....