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    Sheikh Mahmoud Shaltut (Arabic: محمود شلتوت; 23 April 1893 – 13 December 1963) was an Egyptian figure best known for his attempts in Islamic reform. A...
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  • website of an Islamic bank). Opposing the death penalty for apostasy Mahmud Shaltut, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar (1958–1963). Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar...
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    his books, Ma` Al-Qur’an Al-Karim (lit. With the Holy Qur'an), Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut, the then chief Imam of the al-Azhar mosque, said about him: God has...
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  • to Hussein Rashid, "contemporary scholars including Shaykh al-Azhar Mahmud Shaltut, Shaykh Yusuf Qaradawi, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have all issued...
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    Europe and the United States. He established cordial relations with Mahmud Shaltut, the grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar University. Together, the two scholars...
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    University. His efforts, including connecting with scholars such as Mahmud Shaltut and Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, led to the founding of Dar-al-Taghrib...
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  • (Mohammed Iqbal, Agus Salim, Jamal ad-Din Asad-Abadi, Musa al-Sadr, and Mahmud Shaltut) are ideologically closer to third positionism, supporting not just...
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  • in synchrony with later 20th century Islamic writers. According to Mahmud Shaltut and other modernists, unbelief was not sufficient cause for declaring...
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    Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria in 1958, the Islamic scholar Mahmud Shaltut at Al Azhar University in Cairo classified the Druze as Muslims, even...
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    El Dawwar Koum Hamada Rosetta Shubrakhit Wadi El Natrun El Nubaria Mahmud Shaltut, former Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Pope Benjamin I of Alexandria, former...
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  • Islamic scholar Leila Ahmed (born 1940) – Egyptian Islamic scholar Mahmud Shaltut (1958-1963) – Egyptian Islamic scholar and Grand Imam of al-Azhar (1958-1963)...
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    served as the Italian Social Republic's Ambassador to Nazi Germany. Mahmud Shaltut, 70, Egyptian Islamic theologian At 3:38 in the afternoon, an earthen...
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  • Muhammad al-Khadi Husayn (1952–1954) Abd al-Rahman Taj (1954–1958) Mahmud Shaltut (1958–1963) Hassan Mamoun (1963–1969) Muhammad al-Fahham (1969–1973)...
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  • cessation of war and military conflict with non-Muslims. In a similar vein, Mahmud Shaltut states that "jizya was never intended as payment in return for one's...
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    Muhammad al-Khadi Husayn (1952–1954) Abd al-Rahman Taj (1954–1958) Mahmud Shaltut (1958–1963) Hassan Mamoun (1963–1969) Muhammad al-Fahham (1969–1973)...
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  • reforms in the 1950s. In the 1960s its editor was Ahmad Hasan Al Zayyat. Mahmud Shaltut was one of the contributors of Majalla Al Azhar whose fatwas were published...
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    Somali linguist who devised a Latin script for the Somali language. Mahmud Shaltut (1893–1963, aged 70), Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, issued in 1959 a Fatwa...
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    Sayyid Qutb, Muhammad Asad, Mahmoud Taleghani, Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur, Mahmud Shaltut, Mustafa al-Maraghi, Mohammed al-Ghazali, Yusuf al-Qaradawi...
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  • Rashid Rida (1865-1935), a prominent follower of Ibn Taimiyah); and Mahmud Shaltut (1893-1963) became popular for their contemporary islah movements. Islamic...
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  • Egypt, and spent his early life in Cairo. He is the grandson of Sheikh Mahmud Shaltut. He earned his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1976, and M.S. degree in...
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    issues was Mahmud Shaltut, who took office in various levels and rose to prominence with his reformist thoughts. He objected the fatwa of Shaltut who used...
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    years a minority of Islamic scholars (Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Rida, Mahmud Shaltut, Syed Ahmad Khan, Fazl al-Rahman, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy and Yusuf...
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  • (1896–1975) was born in Asyut, Asyut Governorate 43 Mahmud Shaltut (Arabic: محمود شلتوت) 1958 1963 Hanafi Shaltut (1893–1963) was born in Minyat Bani Mansur,...
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    of differences also exist about the disbursement of zakat.  – Shiekh Mahmud Shaltut The consequence of failure to pay zakat has been a subject of extensive...
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    Shi'a–Sunni relations by Sunni scholar Shaikh Mahmood Shaltoot. Under Shaltut, Sunni-Shia ecumenical activities would reach their zenith. The fatwa is...
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    19th/20th century Islamic jurists, such as Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Rida, Mahmud Shaltut, Syed Ahmad Khan, Fazl al-Rahman, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy. Examples...
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  • Tawfiq al-Hakim, Mohammed al-Ghazali, Yusuf Idris, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Mahmud Shaltut, Salah Abdel Sabour, Anis Mansour, Fahmi Huwaidi, Ahmed Bahgat, Rajaa...
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    metaphorically. In response to a question put forward by an Indian Ahmadi to Mahmud Shaltut, a teacher (later shaykh) of Al-Azhar, as to whether, according to the...
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    book. He travelled to Cairo on behalf of Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi and Mahmud Shaltut, the Grand Mufti and dean of Al-Azhar University Sheikh, for fatwa....
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    practice is totally non-existent in most of the Islamic countries." Mahmud Shaltut, the former Sheikh of Al-Azhar in Cairo – one of the most important...
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