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Grand Imam Began End Madhhab Notes 1 Muhammad al-Kharashi (Arabic: محمد الخرشي) 1679 1690 Maliki: al-Kharashi (1601–1690) was born in Abu Kharash, Beheira Governorate: 2 Ibrahim al-Barmawi (Arabic: إبراهيم البرماوي) 1690 1695 Shafii: al-Barmawi (died 1695) was born in Barma, Gharbia Governorate: 3 Muhammad al-Nasharti
The title of the Grand Imam of al-Azhar was officially established in 1961. In the 14th century the head of al-Azhar was granted the title of Mushrif of al-Azhar, then later Nazir of Al-Azhar [3] and, during the Ottoman Empire, the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar. Today the bearer of the title also carries the title of the Grand Sheikh.
Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb (Arabic: أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب; born 6 January 1946) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar, al-Azhar al-Sharif and former president of al-Azhar University. He was appointed by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, following the death of Mohamed Sayed Tantawy in 2010. [1]
Salim al-Bishri, (Arabic: سَلِيم ٱلْبِشْرِي) also known as Salim al-Bishri al-Maliki, born in 1832 in Mahallat Bishr and died in 1916 in Cairo, was an Egyptian Sunni religious scholar and a Grand Imam of Al-Azhar. He was one of the six Grand Imams who held this position twice, once between 1899 and 1903 and again from 1909 until ...
The Al-Azhar institution in its current form was reorganized according to Law No. 10 of 1911, amended by Law No. 32 and 33 of 1923, and then Law No. 103 of 1961, [3] which stipulated that Al-Azhar is the major Islamic scientific body based on the preservation and study of Islamic heritage, and it has an independent moral personality, headed by it.
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar; In office 27 March 1996 – 10 March 2010: Preceded by: Gad el-Haq Ali Gad el-Haq: Succeeded by: Mohamed Ahmed el-Tayeb: Grand Mufti of Egypt; In office 28 October 1986 – 27 March 1996: Preceded by: Abd al-Latif Abd al-Ghani Hamzah: Succeeded by: Nasr Farid Wasil: Personal details; Born 28 October 1928 Sohag, Egypt: Died
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He was Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1917 until 1927, an eventful time in Islam and the modern history of Al-Azhar University. Under his tenure he witnessed Egypt's 1919 revolution , and the abolition of the Caliphate ; The 1924 King Fuad I Edition of the Qur’an was published; [ 2 ] and the Supreme Council of al-Azhar sentenced Ali Abdel Raziq ...