Ali Gomaa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ali Gomaa

Egyptian imam

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1951

Place of Birth: Beni Suef, Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt

Profession: mufti

Nationality: Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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Ali Gomaa (Arabic: ??? ?????, Egyptian Arabic: ['?æli 'gom?æ]) is a controversial Egyptian Islamic scholar, jurist, and public figure.
He specializes in Islamic Legal Theory.
He follows the Shafi`i school of Islamic jurisprudence and the Ash'ari school of tenets of faith.
Gomaa is a Sufi.He served as the eighteenth Grand Mufti of Egypt (2003–2013) through Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah succeeding Ahmed el-Tayeb.
He has, in the past, been considered a respected Islamic jurists, according to a 2008 U.S.
News & World Report report and The National, and "a highly promoted champion of moderate Islam," according to The New Yorker.
In more recent years, however, he has been characterized by Western scholarly observers as a supporter of "authoritarian" forms of government, and The New York Times notes in 2013 that he encouraged security forces to kill protesters against the Egyptian coup of that year.He was succeeded as Grand Mufti by Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam in February 2013.