List of Presidents of Al-Azhar University
This article is about the academic office. For the religious office, see List of Grand Imams of al-Azhar.
The following is a list of presidents of al-Azhar University since its nationalization in 1961. The reforms brought about by Act 103 of 1961 were the most sweeping in al-Azhar's history.[1] They led to the loss of al-Azhar's independence and its incorporation into the Egyptian educational system as a full university.[2]
List
| Name | Tenure | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Romanized | Arabic | Began | End |
| Muhammad Muhammad Amer el-Bahi | محمد محمد عامر البهي | 1961 | 1964 |
| Ahmad Hasan el-Baquri | أحمد حسن الباقوري | 1964 | 1969 |
| Badawi Abdel Latif Awad | بدوي عبد اللطيف عوض | 1969 | 1974 |
| Muhammad Hasan Fayed | محمد حسن فايد | 1974 | 1979 |
| Awad Allah Gad Higazi | عوض الله جاد حجازي | 1979 | 1980 |
| Muhammad el-Tayyeb el-Naggar | محمد الطيب النجار | 1980 | 1983 |
| Muhammad el-Sa'di Farhud | محمد السعدي فرهود | 1983 | 1987 |
| Abdel Fattah Husseini el-Sheikh | عبد الفتاح حسيني الشيخ | 1987 | 1995 |
| Ahmad Omar Hashem | أحمد عمر هاشم | 1995 | 2003 |
| Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad el-Tayyeb | أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب | 2003 | 2010 |
| Abdallah al-Husseini | عبد الله الحسيني | 2010 | 2011 |
| Usama al-Abd | أسامة العبد | 2011 | |
References
- General
- رؤساء جامعة الأزهر منذ صدور القانون رقم 103 لسنة 1961 [Presidents of Al-Azhar University since the promulgation of Act 103 of 1961] (in Arabic). Official website of Al-Azhar University. Archived from the original on 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2011-03-29.
- Specific
- ↑ Qubain, Fahim Issa (1979). Education and Science in the Arab World. Johns Hopkins University Press Reprints (Reprinted ed.). New York: Arno Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-405-10622-4.
- ↑ Skovgaard-Petersen, Jakob (1997). Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dār al-Iftā. Volume 59 of Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia. Leiden: Brill. p. 186. ISBN 978-90-04-10947-6.
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