Lifetime Achievement Awards

Sh Fehmi is a figure beloved to the entire Australian Muslim community in Australia. Having served as a Mufti and before that as a community-builder, he had a long-term association with all things education in our community. Pioneering in his vision and relentless in his determination, his commitment to the needs of Muslim leanrers and educators paved the way for many. In 2023, he was inducted into the Salaam ISAA Awards Lifetime Achievers category posthumously.

Mr. Mohamad Hassan OAM served for 50 years in the fields of youth development, interfaith dialogue and Islamic schooling and education. He was the Founding Director of Minaret College, as well as an active member of various Islamic school boards, and a founding member of Australian Council for Islamic Education in Schools (ACIES), the precursor the Islamic Schools Association of Australia (ISAA). He will be remembered as a person of great vision, captured in an iconic article he wrote and presented in 1978 entitled, ‘Unmet needs of Muslim migrants’, leading the early call for the establishment of Islamic schools in Australia.

Mr. Salah Salman AM served in fields of schooling, education, and community for over 50 years, including as Board Chairman and later Academy Director responsible for the expansion of Australian International Academy (AIA). He was the key driving force for the establishment and expansion of secondary schooling at AIA. Demonstrative of his vision, he later founded an AIA campus in Abu Dabi. He was also a co-founder of the Australian Council for Islamic Education in Schools (ACIES), the precursor to the now Islamic Schools Association of Australia (ISAA)