List of Muslim Nobel laureates

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This page is a list of individuals born Muslim who have won a Nobel Prize. See also List of Muslim scientists, List of Muslim writers and poets and List of Muslim leaders and politicians.

Contents 1 Muslim Nobel laureates 1.1 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1.2 Nobel Prize in Literature 1.3 Nobel Peace Prize 1.4 Nobel Prize in Physics 2 Notes 3 See also

[edit] Muslim Nobel laureates

[edit] Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• Ahmed Zewail, 1999

[edit] Nobel Prize in Literature

• Naguib Mahfouz, 1988 ^[1]
• Orhan Pamuk, 2006

[edit] Nobel Peace Prize

• Anwar El-Sadat, 1978
• Yasser Arafat, 1994
• Shirin Ebadi, 2003
• Mohamed ElBaradei, 2005
• Muhammad Yunus, 2006

[edit] Nobel Prize in Physics

• Abdus Salam, 1979 ^[2]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Naguib Mahfouz has written novels apparently questioning and skeptical of central tenets of Islam and has been condemned and attacked by Islamists for doing so. [1].
2. ^ Abdus Salam was a member of the Ahmadiyya community, which is considered heretical by all mainstream branches of Islam

[edit] See also

• List of Nobel laureates
• Nobel laureates by country
• List of Hindu Nobel laureates
• List of Jewish Nobel laureates