Saud Al-Shuraim born in Riyadh in January 1966, Saud Al-Shuraim is a name to reckon given his outstanding education pertaining to Islamic Sciences and Qur’an recitation. He has an honorary Doctorate from the Umm Al Qura University in Makkah. Having graduated from the renowned  University of AAl-Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud under able and distinguished Shaykhs like Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Baz, Abdallah Al Jabreen, Abdallah Ben Okail, Abderrahmane El Berrak, and Abdelaziz Errajhi, it is not a matter of surprise and astonishment that he was designated as the  Imam and Priest (Khatib) of Masjid Al Haram by the King of Saudi Arabia which he does effortlessly albeit with other stalwarts of the same discipline namely Sheikh Sudais and Sheikh Maher Al Muaiqly.