Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman will attend on Wednesday evening the prize distribution ceremony of King Faisal International Prize at Prince Sultan Grand Hall of Al Faisaliah Hotel in Riyadh. The King will honor the winners in the five branches of the Prize by awarding certificates, medals of appreciation and prize money. The function will start with the address of Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, emir of Makkah, adviser to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and chairman of the King Faisal Foundation. Eight distinguished scholars have been declared winners for the Prize in the categories of service to Islam, Islamic studies, Arabic language and literature, science and medicine. The Prize for Service to Islam was awarded to renowned Saudi scholar Sheikh Saleh Bin Humaid, who is also imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah and former chairman of the Shoura Council. Prof. Abdullah Al-Ghunaim, president of the Kuwaiti Studies and Research Center, was the winner of the Prize for Islamic Studies while the Prize for Arabic Language and Literature was awarded to Prof. Mohammed Muftah from Morocco and Prof. Mohammed Abdul Muttalib Mustafa from Egypt. Professor Han Grrit Brunner and Professor Joris Andre Veltman from the Netherlands shared the Prize for Medicine for clinical application of next generation genetics while the Prize for Science in Biology was shared by Professor Vamsi Krishna Mootha from the US and Professor Stephen Philip Jackson from the UK.
