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RIYADH: Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi and the Egyptian academic Prof. Hassan Mahmoud Al-Shafei were named on Wednesday as joint winners of the 2022 King Faisal Prize for outstanding services to Islam. Mwinyi, 96, was the second president of the United Republic of Tanzania from 1985 to 1995, and lives in Dar es Salaam. Al-Shafei is professor of Islamic philosophy