Ali Gomaa
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Sheikh Ali Gomaa (Arabic:علي جمعة) is the Grand Mufti of Egypt succeeding Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy. He is considered to be one of the most respected and qualified traditional Islamic scholars alive. He specializes in the science of the foundations of Islamic Law, viz Usul al-fiqh. He follows the Shafi`i school of Islamic juruspudence.
Shaikh Ali Gomaa is also the khateeb (the Orator) of the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo and has authored around two dozen books on various highly specialized and complex subjects of Islam.
He is the Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Hadith, a sub-project of the greater Sunnah Project of the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, which aims at documenting and publishing all works related to Prophetic narrations or Hadith.
[edit] Teachers
Some of his prominent teachers include
- Shaykh Abdallah al-Saddiq al-Ghumari whom he learnt Usul al-fiqh from
- Shaykh Muhammad Abul-Nur Zuhair a scholar of Shafi'i Fiqh
- Shaykh Gad Al-Rabb Ramadan
- Shaykh al-Husseini Yousuf al-Sheikh.
[edit] External links
- Articles of faith
- Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
- Encyclopaedia of Hadith and IHSAN Network
- Member of Fons Vitae books Editorial Advisory board
- Anti-Semitic remarks
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