1. Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar, al-Azhar al-Sharif and former president of al-Azhar University.
12 Facts About Ahmed el-Tayeb
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Ahmed el-Tayeb was appointed by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, following the death of Mohamed Sayed Tantawy in 2010.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb is from Kurna, Luxor Governorate in Upper Egypt, and he belongs to a Sunni Muslim family.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb was president of Al-Azhar University from 2003 until 2010.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb initially refused to resign from his position in the National Democratic Party by saying that there was no conflict between his role at Al-Azhar and membership in the party.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb said at the rally that "the al-Aqsa Mosque is currently under an offensive by the Jews" and "we shall not allow the Zionists to Judaize al-Quds [Jerusalem]".
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Ahmed el-Tayeb alleged that Jews around the world were trying to prevent Islamic and Egyptian unity.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb backed the military coup against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb has strongly rebuked the Sunni anti-Alawite preaching, which has increased since the Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on the Sunni Muslim rebels in the Syrian Civil War.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb has strongly condemned the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and stated that it is acting "under the guise of this holy religion and have given themselves the name 'Islamic State' in an attempt to export their false Islam" and.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb has been criticized for not expressly stating that Islamic State was heretical.
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Ahmed el-Tayeb wrote that Islam forbids Muslim women from marrying non-Muslims, because the latter do not believe in Muhammad and his religion, meanwhile Muslim men would allow their non-Muslim women to practice their religion freely.