The Islamic world, in its noumerous countries, comprises a cultural heritage of handicrafts.The artisans are distinguished for their creative thinking in an array of outstanding products that still exist arround the world. It expresses the genuine aspects of traditional handcrafts in the Islamic World, in various fields Ornamentation, Caligraphy, Architectural design, Book binding, Decor, Carpetry, Weaving, Arms and Mashrabias, Stained glass, traditional outfits, and other spelnders stating the elegance resulting from local settings of basic asthetics, that until today control the path of innovation in the present, revealing the distinguished heritage and cultural identity of the Islamic World, and still contributes actively to tourism and the economic growth and distinguishing the creativity in the filed of urban heritage.

      This enlightened part of our heritage, is exposed to some obstacles and difficulties preventing it from growing and developing, such as the dominance of modern machinary, and the various products we see being made by it, as a result of which artisan will have to work in factories and leave his/her traditional craft. Also, there are difficulties in financing and funding, and the lack of proper training and education in this field, as well as the difficulty of marketing the handmade and other products.

      This current status implies a social responsibility, not only on artisans, but also on all local and national authorities and bodies, in the importance of cooperation in an active form, in order to contribute to improving the social and economic living standards of artisans, through providing ongoing training and education programs for them, and supply the atrisans with basic material and aid, in addition to providing suitable marketing opportunities for their products. On the other hand, there must be an incentives and special promotions to activate competition frames in order to obtain a continuous creativity in this field, a type that we would be proud of and distinguished among other societies, through issuing awards for the honoraries, which will lead to new products.

      Following up the promotion work of the Supreme Commission for Tourism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, tourism and heritage projects are planned in order to activate and revive this sector. It is suggested to allocate a special award for traditional artisans in the Islamic World, to mobilize these creative efforts, encourage them to maintain a continuous connection assuring the products of this sector.

      To come up with an international award of innovation in the handicrafts sector in the Islamic World, once every two years, to identify this important part of the Islamic cultural heritage and promote the motion of ongoing creativity and innovation. Also, to draw the attention of artisans and to the important role they have to preserve the heritage creativity.

      The importance of this International Award is to draw  attention to this important aspect of  Islamic cultural heritage and to identify it on both international and provincial level. This will be a unique award in terms of attracting businesses from different and distant regions of the world, and shall work on activating the frames of creativity and innovation of both male and female artisans in this field, and to enlighten them on the imminence given in the society to their work, which will include protecting, preserving continues production of this heritage.

• To approve of process of ensuring research, creativity, crafts organization and formation, besides identifying means of cooperation in this field.
• To develop this form of art, and increase the innovation ability of young artisans through competitive programs and motives encouraging them to create and innovate, thus, to reach sustainable industrial handicrafts.
• To draw and identify a solid process policy to ensure the revival of innovation in the Islamic world, and to come out with a clear work plan arise in this field, representing a heritage, tourism, culture, and economic resource of member states.
• To improve special situations of artisans work and field in order to encourage their innovative ability.
• To draw international and regional attention to the importance of artisans, through displaying their unique prize winning products.
• To identify honorary artisans work of different region, to establish opportunities of cooperation in order to exchange artisans among member countries, which will lead to introducing them to each others work beside best practice.

1. The participants shall be informed to present at least two samples of their work: a finished item, as well as another similar item to be completed under the supervision of the International Arbitration Committee to display professionality of the participants.
2. Participation is open for all catagories, products presented shall be for the first time, and never been displayed before.
3. The participants are required to present enough information on the presented handicraft item, including a brief on its origin, and materials used, as well as techniques applied.
4. The awards shall be awarded to the artisan displaying rare qualification and profession.
5. Also, the artisans (male/female) shall be awarded with a prize for best presentation of their work, revealing qualification of work during the period of presenting proposals.