President of Republic Oversees 2021 Chinguitt Prizes Ceremony

On 24 December, the President of the Republic, His Excellency Mohamed Ould Cheikh El-Ghazouani, supervised, in Nouakchott, the ceremony for the awarding of the Chinguitt Prizes for the year 2021, placed under the slogan: "20 years of promotion of scientific and cultural research”. Intended to reward Mauritanians and foreigners who have greatly contributed to the deepening of research in the Islamic, scientific, and literary fields, and to promote renaissance in these disciplines, the Chinguitt Prize is composed of a certificate of appreciation and an amount of five million Ouguiya (5,000,000 MRO) for the winner of each discipline. Here is the list of the recipients of the Chinguitt Prize for the year 2021: - Chinguitt Prize for Islamic Studies was awarded to three Mauritanian researchers, namely: Dr. Sidi Ali El Ghassem Moulaye, for his research on “the theory of the distribution of wealth in Islamic jurisprudence”, - Dr. Lematt Mohamed El Mokhtar El Ghassem, for his research entitled: "Elmouvid (the useful) on the reasons for the contradiction between the Faqihs", and - Dr. Moustapha Ould Khattry, for his study entitled "the Fiqh of the experience among the Nawazilites Chinguittes". -The Chinguitt Prize for Literature and the Arts was awarded by the President of the Republic to its laureate, Dr. Mona Abdelkader Bounama, for his work entitled: "The Chinguitts Historians and the Interpretation of History". As for the Science and Technology prize, it was withdrawn by the council, due to the lack of conditions for awarding it to this year's candidates.