International Sunni Conference in Grozny

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The International Sunni Conference in Grozny took place at the end of August 2016 . In the Chechen capital of Grozny , Sunni religious scholars met with more than 100 leading Islamic theologians from around the world. Participants also was Ahmed el-Tayeb , the imam of Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo .

The goal of the conference

The aim of the conference was uncompromising against the increasing "Takfiri- terrorism proceed", the world's mischief sideboard. ( Takfir in Islamic theology means the practice of accusing a Muslim or a group of Muslims of apostasy , i.e. declaring them an unbeliever .) The assembled Sunni scholars, including the current Grand Imam of Azhar University in Cairo, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el- Tayeb, had stated that those Tafkiri terrorists who loudly proclaimed that they were Sunnis would not belong to the Ahl al-Sunnah (i.e. not to Sunni Islam). Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb defined in front of the assembled scholars what was meant by the Ahl al-Sunnah . He emphasized that the Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a included the Asharites and Maturids , i.e. the followers of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi's systematic theology, which was identical to Imam Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'aris Theology. Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb also emphasized that the Salafists and Wahhabis do not belong to mainstream Islam. This is probably the first time that such an international body of Islamic scholars has jointly stated that Salafism and Wahhabism, state Islam and the political ideology of Saudi Arabia , do not belong to the Ahl al-Sunnah.

Final declaration of the conference

The final declaration of the international Ahl Sunnah conference in Grozny, with the participation of the Sheikh of the Azhar and other well-known scholars , emphasized for the first time that the foundations of the Ahl Sunnah were the two recognized schools of thought of the doctrine of the faith (the Maturidi School and the Asharitic School of Theology ), the four Sunni schools of law (the Hanafi , Malekiten , Schafeiten and Hanbali ) and the Sufism and that the Wahhabis / Salafis - reject all of that - because of its not to Ahl Sunnah wa al-Jamaa'ah are to be counted.

The conference addressed the issue of Sunni identity. These, wrote the participants in the final declaration, are based on belonging to various Sunni groups and schools of law. The authors named a - very manageable - number of different groups and currents. "There are no other groups in the Sunni community," the final statement said. That was an unmistakable affront to the Wahhabis , who the religious scholars had expressly not included in their list, and thus also to Saudi Arabia, where Wahhabism is the state religion. The Saudi kingdom, which sees itself as a Sunni leading power, had to perceive this as a bitter provocation.

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  1. ^ Chechnya Hosts International Islamic Conference The Jamestown Foundation.
  2. ^ Islamic conference in Chechnya: Why Sunnis are disassociating themselves from Salafists Firstpost.
  3. ↑ International Alh-Sunna Conference in Grozny Ottoman hostel - Sufi center in the Eifel.
  4. ↑ Saudi state religion under attack Deutsche Welle.
  5. ^ Conference in Grozny: Wahhabism exclusion from the Sunni community provokes Riyadh's wrath AsiaNews.