Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
| Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy محمد سيد طنطاوي |
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| Grand Imam of Al-Azhar | |
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In office 27 March 1996 – 10 March 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Gad al-Haq Ali Gad al-Haq |
| Succeeded by | Mohamed Ahmed el-Tayeb |
| Grand Mufti of Egypt | |
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In office 28 October 1986 – 27 March 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Abd al-Latif Abd al-Ghani Hamzah |
| Succeeded by | Nasr Farid Wasil |
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28 October 1928 Sohag, Egypt |
| Died | 10 March 2010 (aged 81) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Alma mater | Al-Azhar University |
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (Arabic: محمد سيد طنطاوي; 28 October 1928 – 10 March 2010), also referred to as Tantawi, was an influential Islamic scholar in Egypt. From 1986 to 1996, he was the grand Mufti of Egypt. In 1996, president Hosni Mubarak appointed him as the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, a position he retained until his death in 2010.
Tantawy born on 28 October 1928 in the village of Selim ash-Sharqiyah in the municipality of Tama, Sohag in Egypt. He joined the Alexandria Religious Institute in 1944. He graduated from Al-Azhar's faculty of religious studies in 1958 and went on to teach. In 1966, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Hadith and Tafsir, exegesis of the Qur'an. He became a member of the faculty of Ausol Aldeen in 1968 and a member of the faculty of Arabic & Islamic Studies at the Islamic University of Libya in 1972. In 1980 he moved to Saudi Arabia, where he became chief of the Tafsir branch of the Postgraduate studies branch at the Islamic University of Madinah. He returned to Egypt in 1985, when he became Dean of the Faculty of Ausol Aldeen at the prestigious Alexandria Religious Institute.
He obtained his first degree with honours, his Masters in Education in 1959 and his Ph.D in 1966. His doctoral thesis was on the children of Israel in the al-Quran and al-Sunnah.
In 1986, Tantawy was appointed as Grand Mufti of Egypt on his 58th birthday, 28 October 1986. He held this position for almost ten years, until he was appointed Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque and Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University by the President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, on 27 March 1996. The Al-Azhar Mosque is one of the most influential and important Sunni Muslim institutions.
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