- 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) In Association with the Booker Prize Foundation

 -  Medical Knowledge and Heritage Study According to the Set Rules of the Art of Critical Study Award from the Islamic Organization of Medicine/Kuwait Organization for the Advancement of Knowledge, in 1994 for his work on Ibn al-Nafīs.

- Imam Muhammad Madi Abul-‘Aza’im Award in the field of Islamic studies in 1995.

- ‘Abdul-Hamid Shuman Prize in the field of social studies in 1996 for his book Fawā’ih al-Jamāl wa Fawā’ih al Jalāl- ‘Fragrance of Beauty & Revelations of the Magestic’ by Nijm al-Dīn Kubrā.

- A special Award from the International Academy of Learning in 1996 for his academic corpus.

- Many other governmental and non-governmental grants on the national and international levels.

- The Kuwait 2005 History of Medicine Award in the field of Arabic Scientific Heritage from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, for the year 2005