Grand Imams of al-Azhar

Browse the complete timeline of Grand Imams of al-Azhar throughout history

Muhammad al-Kharashi 1679-01-01 — 1690-01-01
Abdullah Al-Shabrawi 1725-01-01 — 1758-01-01
Muhammad ibn Salim al-Hanafi 1758-01-01 — 1767-01-01
Ahmad Damanhuri 1769-01-01 — 1778-01-01
Abd Allah ibn Hijazi al-Sharqawi 1793-01-01 — 1812-01-01
Hasan al-Attar 1831-01-01 — 1835-01-01
Hasan al-Quwaysini 1835-01-01 — 1838-01-01
Ibrahim al-Bājūrī 1847-01-01 — 1860-01-01
Mustafa al-Arusi 1864-01-01 — 1870-01-01
Muhammad al-Mahdi 1870-01-01 — 1881-01-01
İnbabi 1881-01-01 — 1882-01-01
Muhammad al-Mahdi 1882-01-01 — 1886-01-01
İnbabi 1886-01-01 — 1894-01-01
Hassunah al-Nawawi 1895-01-01 — 1899-01-01
Salim al-Bishri 1899-01-01 — 1903-01-01
Ali al-Biblawi 1903-01-01 — 1905-01-01
Abd al-Rahman al-Shirbini 1905-01-01 — 1907-01-01
Hassunah al-Nawawi 1907-01-01 — 1909-01-01
Salim al-Bishri 1909-01-01 — 1917-01-01
Muhammad al-Jizawi 1917-01-01 — 1927-01-01
Mustafa al-Maraghi 1928-01-01 — 1929-01-01
Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī Ẓawāhirī 1929-01-01 — 1935-01-01
Mustafa al-Maraghi 1935-01-01 — 1945-01-01
Mustafa 'Abd al-Raziq 1945-01-01 — 1947-01-01
Abd al-Majid Salim 1950-01-01 — 1951-01-01
Ibrahim Hamrush 1951-01-01 — 1952-01-01
Muḥammad al-Khiḍr Ḥusayn 1952-01-01 — 1954-01-01
Abd al-Majid Salim 1952-01-01 — 1952-01-01
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Tāj 1954-01-01 — 1958-01-01
Mahmud Shaltut 1958-01-01 — 1963-01-01
Hassan Mamoun 1964-01-01 — 1969-01-01
Muhammad al-Fahham 1969-01-01 — 1973-01-01
Abdel-Halim Mahmoud 1973-01-01 — 1978-01-01
Gad al-Haq 1982-01-01 — 1996-01-01
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi 1996-01-01 — 2010-01-01
Ahmad al-Tayyeb 2010-01-01