The Patron, H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, have decided to award the Erasmus Prize 2004 to Sadik Jalal Al-Azm (Syria), Fatema Mernissi (Morocco) and Abdulkarim Soroush (Iran).
The Erasmus Prize is awarded annually to a person or institution that has made an exceptionally important contribution to European culture, society or social science. The amount of the Prize is € 150.000. The presentation of the Prize will take place in the autumn of 2004 in Amsterdam.