Mustafa (PBUH) Prize Can Be an Award for Saving Humanity

Iran’s Vice President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi hoped for holding Mustafa (pbuh) Prize in other Islamic countries, saying that the award can become a platform to save humanity and improve human life.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the 5th Mustafa (pbuh) Prize in Isfahan, Dehqani Firouzabadi said: As long as Westerners lived in the Middle Ages, Muslim scientists were at the forefront of science and knowledge.

Muslims consider science for the development of science, but Westerners consider science for practical fields, he added.

There are many reasons that have led to the transfer of pioneering from the Islamic world to the Western world, he noted.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Dehqani described Baha' al-din al-'Amili as one the prominent scholars of the Islamic world, saying that 200 years before the birth of thermodynamics, he designed Shaykh Bahai hammam in Isfahan.

100 years before the birth of the science of solid mechanics, he built Manar Jonban.

Before the birth of fluid mechanics, he designed and implemented the urban water supply system.

He said that 7 Muslim countries namely Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia, Egypt, and Iran are among the top 30 countries in the field of technology.