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Grand Imam of al-Azhar

شيخ الأزهر ar شیخ الازهر fa

Religious leader in Egypt

  • Dated from 1679 CE
  • Also called Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar
Who held it Compare

Overview

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Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 2 holders
  • 1 gap
  1. 46th 1973 CE – 1978 CE Abdel-Halim Mahmoud Egyptian Sufi and Sheikh (1910–1978)

  2. Gap about 32 years with no holder recorded

    50th from 2010 CE Ahmad al-Tayyeb Imam of al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt
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