Grand Mufti of Egypt
Grand Mufti of Egypt ( Arabic مفتي الديار المصرية) is a high traditional religious office in Egypt. He heads the legal advisory committee of the Center for Islamic Legal Issues ( Fatwa ), the House of Fatwa ( Arabic دار الإفتاء المصرية/ Dār al-Iftā 'al-Miṣrīya), which was founded in 1895 . The office is subordinate to the Ministry of Justice.
Along with the Azhar (see Sheikh der Azhar ), it is the most important Islamic institution in Egypt. The Egyptian Grand Mufti Schawki Ibrahim Allam has been in office as the successor to Ali Gomaa since 2013 .
Ahmed el-Tayeb , the current Sheikh al-Azhar, was Grand Mufti of Egypt from 2002 to 2003.
Grand Muftis
- 1895–1899 Sheikh Hassunah al-Nawawi حسونة النواوي
- 1899–1905 Imam Sheikh Muhammad Abduh محمد عبده
- 1905–1914 Sheikh Bakri al-Sadafi بكري الصدفي
- 1914–1920 Sheikh Muhammad Bachit al-Muti`i محمد بخيت المطيعي
- July 1920 - November 1920 Sheikh Muhammad Isma`il al-Bardisi محمد إسماعيل البرديسي
- 1921–1928 Sheikh `Abd al-Rahman Qurra`ah عبد الرحمن قراعة
- 1928–1945 Sheikh `Abd al-Madschid Salim عبد المجيد سليم البشري
- 1946–1950 Sheikh Hasanayn Muhammad Machluf حسنين محمد مخلوف
- 1950–1952 Sheikh `Allam Nassar علام نصار
- 1952–1954 (for the second time) Sheikh Hasanayn Muhammad Makhluf حسنين محمد مخلوف
- 1955–1960 Sheikh Hasan Ma'mun حسن مأمون
- 1960–1970 Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad `Abd al-`Al Haridi أحمد محمد عبد العال هريدي
- 1970–1978 Sheikh Muhammad Chatir Muhammad al-Sheikh محمد خاطر محمد الشيخ
- 1978–1982 Sheikh Jād al-Haqq ʿAlī Jād al-Haqq
- 1982–1985 Sheikh `Abd al-Latif` Abd al-Ghani Hamza عبد اللطيف عبد الغني حمزة
- 1986–1996 Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi محمد سيد طنطاوي
- 1996–2002 Nasr Farid Wasil نصر فريد واصل
- 2002–2003 Ahmed el-Tayeb أحمد الطيب
- 2003–2013 Ali Gomaa علي جمعة
- 2013-present Sheikh Schawki Ibrahim Allam شوقي إبراهيم علام
literature
- Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen: Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dār al-Iftā. BRILL, 1997
Web links
See also
References and footnotes
- ↑ mfa.gov.eg
- ↑ dates and spelling of the names in the overview in English. Wikipedia, article: Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah (list of authors ), with occasionally slightly different information from the Arabic-language in the article: Grand Mufti of Egypt ; see. dar-alifta.org .