Ahmed el-Tayeb

Ahmed El-Tayeb
أحمد الطيب
Ahmed El-Tayeb in 2023
Grand Imam of al-Azhar & Al-Azhar Al Sharif
Assumed office
10 March 2010
PresidentHosni Mubarak
Mohamed Hussein Tantawy (Acting)
Mohamed Morsi
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Preceded byMohamed Sayed Tantawy
Grand Mufti of Egypt
In office
10 March 2002 – 27 September 2003
PresidentHosni Mubarak
Preceded byNasr Farid Wasil
Succeeded byAli Gomaa
President of Al-Azhar University
In office
2003–2010
PresidentHosni Mubarak
Preceded byAhmad Omar Hashem
Succeeded byAbdallah al-Husseini
Ahmed el-Tayeb
Personal
Born
Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb

(1946-01-06) 6 January 1946 (age 78)
ReligionIslam
NationalityEgyptian
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceMaliki
CreedAsh'ari
MovementSufism
Alma materAl-Azhar University
Paris-Sorbonne University

Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb (Arabic: أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب; born 6 January 1946) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Al-Azhar Al Sharif and former president of al-Azhar University. He was appointed by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, following the death of Mohamed Sayed Tantawy in 2010.[1] He is from Kurna, Luxor Governorate in Upper Egypt, and he belongs to a Sunni Muslim family.[2]

  1. ^ Abou el Magd, Nadia (21 March 2010). "Mubarak appoints a new chief of Al Azhar". The National.
  2. ^ "أحمد الطيب شيخ الأزهر الجديد". aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 22 February 2019.

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