Sherif eltayeb biography for kids

Egyptian Islamic scholar (born 1946)

Not to be confused with Ahmad al-Tayyeb Aldj.

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. He is from Kurna, Luxor Governorate in Upper Egypt, and he belongs to a Sunni Muslim family.

Education

El-Tayeb studied Doctrine and Philosophy at Al-Azhar University, where he graduated in 1969, after that he had a master's degree and Ph.D. in Islamic philosophy in 1971 and 1977 respectively. Later on, he went to study at the University of Paris for six months, from December 1977 to 1978. Afterwards, he held academic posts at Al-Azhar University, then administrative roles in Qena and Aswan, and worked at the International Islamic University, Islamabad in Pakistan in 1999–2000.

Between 2002 and 2003, El-Tayeb served as Grand Mufti of Egypt. El-Tayeb is a hereditary Sufi shaykh from Upper Egypt and has expressed support for a global Sufi league. He was president of Al-Azhar University from 2003 until 2010.

Political party (past)

Prior to his appointment as the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and president of al-Azhar University, he was a member of Mubarak's National Democratic Party's Policies Committee. He initially refused to resign from his position in the National Democratic Party (NDP) by saying that there was no conflict between his role at Al-Azhar and membership in the party.

In April 2010, he resigned from his post in the party.

Views

Muslim Brotherhood

In an article published shortly after his appointment as president of Al-Azhar University, he was described as "a regime loyalist

Awn Al-Sharif Qasim (Arabic: عون الشريف قاسم) (June 16, 1933 – January 19, 2006) was a prolific Sudanese writer, encyclopedist, scholar, community leader, and one of Sudan's leading experts on Arabic language and literature.

He was a strong advocate of Arabic/Islamic culture and its interweaving with Sudanese culture. Qasim authored more than 70 books in the area of Islamic history and civilization, Arabic literature, studies in the Sudanese dialect languages.

Along with Professor Abdalla Eltayeb and Professor Abu Saleem, Qasim was considered one of the scholars who shaped the Sudanese academic scene during the last three decades of the 20th century.

Early life and education

Qasim was born in Sudan's ancient city Halfayat Almilook in 1933. His father immigrated to Sudan from Yemen in 1925 and settled in the city of Halfayat Almilook in Khartoum North and became a known religious figure in the area teaching and educating on Islamic sciences. Due to this background, Qasim was exposed to a heritage of Islamic and Arabic culture education since his early childhood that later on shaped his life.

He graduated from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Khartoum in 1957. He earned his master's degree in 1960, majoring in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In 1967, he earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Career

Qasim served as a minister of religious affairs for 10 years (1971-1981) the longest period served by a minister in all Sudanese governments. During this period he demonstrated exceptional qualities as a leader and political religious figure and soon became one of the most popular and beloved ministers in Sudan's 1970s government for his strong

Nubian Monasteries

The medieval Makurian community of Ghazali forms the largest settlement identified to date within the Bayuda region of Sudan. The site comprises a large walled monastery, at least two iron production facilities, the poorly preserved foundations of an adjacent lay settlement area, and four cemeteries, identified as Cemeteries 1–4. Save for a brief mention in the initial site documentation undertaken in the 1950s by Peter Shinnie, Neville Chittick, and Sayed Nigm ed-Din Sherif, excavations within the cemeteries at Ghazali were undertaken between 2015 and 2016 as part of the broader Ghazali Archaeological Site Presentation Project (G.A.S.P) directed by Prof. Artur Obłuski of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW). This project was undertaken in collaboration with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan (NCAM) and the Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project (QSAP Mission No. 36), as well as co-operation with Dr. Angelika Lohwasser of the University of Münster.

The development of cemeteries at Ghazali reflect a mixture of communities, with Cemetery 2 most evidently being utilised by the monastic community, while Cemetery 3 was utilised by the adjacent lay community. The nature of Cemeteries 1 and 4 are less clear. The location of Cemetery 1 in close proximity to the Ghazali monastery suggests that it may have been utilised by local communities in the area, possibly in connection with the wish to be buried near a religious site, so called ad sanctos burial. Cemetery 4, located approximately 200 m. south of Cemetery 2 and being separated by an area of undeveloped land, is a small burial ground comprising at least fifteen surficially evident burials. The isolated nature and small number of burials in this cemetery bring forth questions as to who might have been utilising this burial space as no clear connection is evident. The size of Cemetery 4 is similar to other small clusters of buria