Muslim Scholars, Endowments Ministers Convene in Egypt
According to Al-Ahram website, the program was inaugurated on November 14 by Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, Grand imam of Al-Azhar and former president of Al-Azhar University, along with Mohammad Mukhtar Gomaa, Egyptian Minister of Endowments, and Mohammad Badr, the governor of Luxor.
The two-day conference has been attended by representatives of 70 Arab and Islamic countries, as well as Muslim scholars, among whom the Palestinian Minister of Endowments and the Mufti of Jerusalem.
The participants discuss matters related to extremist thought, methods of combating terrorism and extremism, and renewing the religious discourse.
Muftis of Chad and Ukraine, head of Avicenna Institute in Paris, director of Kuwait’s “Bait Zakat” Office in Cairo, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Religious Affairs, Indian Minister of Religious Affairs and Minorities, head of the Muslims’ Society in Japan and a number of ambassadors from Arab and Muslim countries have participated in this edition of the program.
Chaired by Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, the president of Egypt, the meeting will conclude today, November 15.
