Muhammad Ali was honored at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, for his efforts to promote dialogue and understanding between the Muslim and Western worlds.
Accompanied by his wife, Yolanda, Ali received the first-ever prize from the Council of 100 Leaders, a group formed at the forum's annual meeting two years ago to promote understanding between the West and Muslims.
Britain's former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, who is on the Council of 100, recalled Ali's boxing career and his public acknowledgment of having Parkinson's Disease.
View Comments
"Who among us was not stirred and moved . . . as he lit the flame at the start of the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta?" he asked.