Ali Gomaa
| Ali Gomaa علي جمعة |
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| Former Grand Mufti of Egypt | |
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In office 28 September 2003 – 11 February 2013 |
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| President |
Hosni Mubarak Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Acting) Mohamed Morsi |
| Preceded by | Ahmed el-Tayeb |
| Succeeded by | Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam |
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| Born |
3 March 1952 Beni Suef, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater |
Al-Azhar University (B.A.) (M.A.) (P.H.D.) Ain Shams University (B.Com.) University of Liverpool (H.D.) |
| Occupation | Islamic scholar |
| Religion | Sunni Islam (Ash'ari);sufi; Shafi'i |
| Website | www.draligomaa.org |
Ali Gomaa (Arabic: علي جمعة, Egyptian Arabic: [ˈʕæli ˈɡomʕæ]) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar, jurist, and public figure. He specializes in Islamic Legal Theory. He follows the Shafi`i school of Islamic jurisprudence and the Ash'ari school of tenets of faith. Gomaa is a sufi.
He served as the eighteenth Grand Mufti of Egypt (2003–2013) through Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah succeeding Ahmed el-Tayeb. He is one of the internationally most respected Islamic jurists according to a 2008 U.S. News & World Report report and The National and "a highly promoted champion of moderate Islam," gender equality, and an "object of hatred among Islamists" according to The New Yorker.
He was succeeded as Grand Mufti by Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam in February 2013.
Ali Gomaa was born in the Upper Egyptian province of Beni Suef on March 3, 1952(7 Jumadah al-Akhirah 1371 AH). Gomaa is married and has three adult children. In person, Gomaa's appearance has been described as "tall and regal, with a round face and a trim beard."
Gomaa graduated from high school in 1969, at which point he enrolled at Ain Shams University in Egypt’s capital, Cairo. Having already begun to memorize the Quran, he delved deeper into his studies of Islam, studying Hadith and Shafi'i jurisprudence in his free time while at university. After completing a B.Comm. (Bachelor of Commerce) at Ain Shams in 1973, Gomaa enrolled in Cairo’s al-Azhar University, the oldest active Islamic institution of higher learning in the world. He received a second bachelor's degree (B.A.) from al-Azhar, then an M.A., and finally a Ph.D with highest honors in Juristic Methodology (usul al-fiqh) in 1988. Since he had not gone through the al-Azhar High School curriculum, he took it upon himself in his first year at the college to study and memorize all of the basic texts, which many of the other students had already covered.
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