Mohamed Ahmed el-Tayeb
| Ahmed el-Tayeb أحمد الطيب |
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Ahmed el-Tayeb in May 2015
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| Grand Imam of Al-Azhar | |
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Assumed office 10 March 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy |
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Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb 6 January 1946 Qena, Egypt |
| Alma mater | Paris-Sorbonne University |
Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb (Arabic: أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب) is the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar and former president of al-Azhar University. He was appointed by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, following the death of Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy in 2010. He is considered to be one of the most moderate Sunni clerics in Egypt. He holds a Ph. D in Islamic philosophy from the Paris-Sorbonne University and has been president of Al-Azhar University since 2003. Between 2002 and 2003, el-Tayeb served as Grand Mufti of Egypt. El-Tayeb is a hereditary Sufi shaykh from Upper Egypt and has expressed support for a global Sufi league.
In late 2016, at a conference of over a hundred Sunni thinkers in Chechnya, Tayeb defined orthodox Sunnism as "the Ash'arites and Muturidis (adherents of the theological systems of Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi and Imam Abul Hasan al-Ash'ari) ... followers of any of the four schools of thought (Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki or Hanbali) and ... also the followers of the Sufism of Imam Junaid al-Baghdadi in doctrines, manners and [spiritual] purification." The conference was believed to have been designed to take an "uncompromising stand against the growing Takfiri terrorism that is playing havoc across the world," and some news sites reported that the scholars present concluded that "Salafism/Wahhabism, the state religion of the Saudi Kingdom flourishing in almost all Muslim-populated courtiers because of the massive Saudi funding ... [does not represent] mainstream Sunni Islam."
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